Character Quotes

It's like having children. You give birth, but then they take on a life of their own. That's what actors do for characters. It's pretty amazing.

My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.

As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.

I love saying dialogue and creating a full character more than just being physical. But I always end up doing physical stuff in my roles.

I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character work to cover weaknesses in my plotting.

I always thought Cheers ended well. You always anticipate that the characters, theough they're leaving television, will somehow go on in another world of the imagination, which I think is good.

I'm really trying not to feel I'm getting spoiled, because the way I look at it, since I'm not a main character of any of the movies, I realize just how fortunate I am.

It surprises me every day that this (Eddie Haskell) character is still so popular. I don't completely understand it but it's nice.

I think the good stories are those where the character decides to break away and do something different.

I personally adore origin stories - they're so intriguing, learning what shaped and formed a character.

I think love is a great catalyst for many characters to further the story or their own growth.

I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.

That's what acting is - it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself.

I think that different actors bring different qualities to the character.

I think that different actors bring different qualities to the Batman character. It's such a wonderful mantle to put on that I think it's a lot of fun for different actors to see how they play it.

The nice thing about a video game is that you can explore the dimensions of a character so much more deeply than you can in a television show or even in a movie.

The character of Johnny Drama was a lot of fun to play.

I've always been way more attracted to playing imposing characters than the hero. I've always been more intrigued by Iago in Shakespeare than playing Romeo. That was always boring to me.

I'm really open to anything that's good. If I read something and it's good, and I like the director, it never really needs to be a specific type of character.

When you get into individual characters certainly there's been things that have been updated .

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters.

Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.

When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.

I can play characters who sing, but I don't like singing in a nightclub or something. It's not my metier.

One of my complaints with American TV characters is that they all have a particular schtick, a hook.

I was thinking what I usually think about when I write: what the next word should be, whether my character should be an emu farmer or a wallaby farmer, the searing pain in my right temple.

It's kind of fun when you're playing characters that aren't quite on the up and up and people still like you.

I really would love to play a hannibal lector or PSYCO type character.

I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.

Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.

Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.

Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where youre both championing a character and youre revolted by them.

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.

I dont categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I dont judge; I just play them.

Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.

It doesn't really matter how you feel about your character; it just matters what you do with it.

Phonogram is the memory of a long period in my life through a surprisingly small filter. Those characters are basically the golem who accompanied me on that decade and a half.

I know that sounds contradictory - you're going on a journey, but once you know who your characters are, you become more disciplined and you film less and less.

Is it more important to make sure that you have another Clinton or a woman in the White House than it is to have somebody who is a morally sound character and judgment?

It's hard to get lost in a scene, to get into a character when everyone's standing around you on the set.

I think for everyone it's good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start rehearsing, to have an inner life.

It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

As for dream roles, they usually just speak to you. I just crave complex characters.

You don't encounter anyone who is not hero or villain of their own story. If it's man vs. self, you have to explore the ways each character is villainous and heroic.

I think it's really important to depict complex, flawed LGBT characters, because we are all connected by our humanity.