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Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing. ↗

— Edward Norton

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There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there. ↗

— Edward Norton

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All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard. ↗

— Edward Norton

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I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. ↗

— Edward Norton

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I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up. ↗

— Edward Norton

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I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles. ↗

— Edward Norton

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Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles. ↗

— Edward Norton

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I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film. ↗

— Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

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Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character. ↗

— Haley Joel Osment

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I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human. ↗

— Clive Owen

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