Role Identification Quotes

The kind of roles which you get, people identify with your roles, and it then leads to the kind of brands you get.

I think right after 'Up in the Air' everyone wanted me to play the girl from 'Up in the Air,' and it took a little while for people to think of me as an actress from a film that they liked instead of just that character.

I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.

Every role I have played has had a bit of me in them.

When audiences start calling you by your character's names, your job is done!

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

I feel like there are things I can relate to in every character. But I feel like when you read a script, you don't get to see the definition behind someone, you just get to read what the person goes through and find a place to come from to make it real.

Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman.

I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

Something just happens when you read a part. You know, if you'd like to do it or if you don't believe it.

There starts to be an overlap between you and the character.

Acting is an imaginative exercise. It would be odd if you didn't try to identify with the roles you play, but I think I can differentiate between where my imagination is leading me and where I actually am.

Any actor would love to just pick up a script and be like, 'I can connect to this person, and I can see myself playing him.'

You know when you've found a part that you want to play. You know it because the part takes you over. It sits in the script waiting for you to play him.

The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.

Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.

I just couldn't believe that it [Into the Forest script] had fallen into my lap, because I felt so incredibly connected to my character, and I understood her, and I really...I haven't had that feeling about a script since I had read Thirteen or The Wrestler when I was just like, "No one else can do this." I just feel so passionate about it.

People say you get identified with a role, and you get stereotyped, but I haven't found that to be the case.

You relate to a character and you find that character within yourself. It's all parts of me. I don't leave characters behind. I just let them go.

You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.

I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play.

I have to believe in the character to perform it.

A lot of people remember me from Star Trek. They've all forgotten all the other things I've done. I was so identified with the role.

There has to be something that I like about a character for me to be able to play him.