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FILM4'S Self Portrait series pools soundbites from some truly great actors who are at the top of their game and hears what makes them tick.

Kiera Knightly
'I like to play characters that I don't know if I can do...to feel that tight-rope.'
Tom Hanks
'It requires getting to an emotional reality that is contrary to the setting you are in.'
Anne Hathaway
'Love your characters flaws.'
Ben Stiller
'It's important to understand where the character is coming from, what his motivations are.'
Judi Dench
'Make people believe you are that person in that circumstance.'
Michael Fassbender
'Do a lot of homework. I want to come on to the floor with ideas.'
Natalie portman
'It's always helpful to incorporate anything that's happening in your own life.'
Leonardo DiCaprio
'I remember spending months and months and months watching all the great classics.'
Saoirse Ronan
'I like to find characters with an interesting background. Otherwise you just get lazy and pull moves that you know work.'
Andrew Garfield
'Your job is to create a real-life, breathing, full, rich, multi-faceted, convoluted, complex person.
Olivia Coleman
'When you get the chance to feel the real emotion in something it's very cathartic. It's beautiful to be able to let rip.'

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