A Quote by Sonya Deville

My personal life is a big part of who my character is. — © Sonya Deville
My personal life is a big part of who my character is.
A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.
I'm building a career as big as humanly possible so I can be in a 'Star Wars' project. My life goal is to have a character in the 'Star Wars' universe, film or other media. I just want to go to my grave knowing I played some character or some character based on my likeness was part of that world.
Just finding the right balance of career, family, personal goals, personal feelings. All of that is part of life and part of growing up.
Sometimes I like to think it would be nice if you just had a character, and your personal life was your personal life. My life is definitely out there, you know?
I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.
A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.
I'm extremely happy, but I don't do love songs for the most part. It feels weird; that's such a personal thing to me. I'd rather live that in my real life and play a different character outside of that.
When I started wrestling and then turned into the Evil Queen, I created this character who I needed in my personal life. This woman who is strong, intelligent, confident, empowering. That's what I needed in my personal life.
I think, for every actor, the most challenging part of playing a character, specially a real-life character, is to convince yourself that you are the character.
If I speak with a character’s voice it is because that character’s become so much part of me that … I think I have the right then to imagine myself into the skin, into the life, into the dreams, into the experience of the particular character that I’ve chosen.
I think I'm a big romantic, so being part of those stories, that’s such a big part of anyone’s life in general, that’s such a humane thing.
I listen to music because that's such a huge part of my process; not to sound super pretentious, but that's a big part of what helps me get in character.
My character, Charlotte, is very confident, and I try to be more like my character in real life. Not that I'm not confident, but I've really found my personal growth through work.
With any character, you have to put part of yourself into it because we are the soul that brings that character to life.
When I play a gay character, I want to be as believable as possible. And when I'm playing a straight character, I also want to be as believable as possible. So the less that people know about my personal life, the more believable I can be as a character.
I love factoids. It's hard for me to keep those out. It just takes realizing that it's stopping the character. Part of it is the decision to keep things where you want to train the spotlight. For me, it's the personal side. I always ask, How does the person inside the character relate to this?
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