When you're playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint you in some way that allows you to borrow just a small piece of their soul. That is the flame.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire - that is to give him a real moral strength.
I always tell myself that when you're playing a character, pretend they're on trial and you're giving the best witness of their life. You really need to think about every element of the character and represent them properly, as if they were a real person. You want to give 100 percent of what they're worth and what they deserve as people.
Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.
Because characters are your creations, you are the one who ultimately gets to decide their fate.
Character is the essence of all that a man has seen in life and regards as high and exalted. Character is like truth: the substance of the things that a man has forgotten but the substance of the things that are worth remembering in life.
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
When you really want a role, you just put your soul in it.