A Quote by Russi Taylor

You have to bring yourself to a character.

Russi Taylor

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Bring Character Yourself

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Russi Taylor
American - Actress
May 4, 1944 - July 26, 2019

When you play a character, you bring yourself into the character. You get a chance to shine and show your translation for the character and her state of mind.

Gal Gadot

You have a certain objectivity, as a member of the audience, and you can come away maybe being provoked into a certain discourse or a certain arena of questioning, regarding how you would deal with things that your character has to deal with. Whereas when you're doing a film, once you start asking, "What would I do?," you're getting the distance greater between yourself and the character, or you're bringing the character to you, which I think is self-serving, in the wrong way. The idea is to bring yourself to the character.

Colin Farrell

I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.

Felicity Jones

The most important thing you can do as an actor is bring as much of yourself to the character to ground the character in some sort of reality, and then you build around it and on top of it.

Michael Kelly

You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.

Sam Heughan

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

Lori Loughlin

If you are going to be a character for the long-term you can't just imitate, you have to bring yourself to it.

Russi Taylor

I think you have to draw from any character and bring it to yourself as much as possible.

Nina Dobrev

Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.

David Twohy

I don't believe you just create a character out of thin air, there's always something of yourself you bring.

Sean Bean

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.

Jerome Flynn

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

Scott Bakula

I try to give each performance my own soul, to bring a truth to my character. Hopefully, when I bring that much truth to a character, it resonates with somebody, and it sparks some kind of emotion in them.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

As an actor playing a character, you look for all of those avenues to see if there's any sense of vulnerability or love that you can bring to a character, and decide how that's portrayed and how that's going to be a struggle with the other characters. It's your job to take that on and challenge yourself, and meet that head on and see what happens with it.

David Boreanaz

Any character that you come up with or create is a piece of you. You're putting yourself into that character, but there's the guise of the character. So there's a certain amount of safety in the character, where you feel more safe being the character than you do being just you