Characters Quotes
My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
Damita Jo. Jo. That's my middle name. It's let in about the different characters that live within me. They say we have 200 characters that we portray with different people.
My mother saw a movie when she was 14 years old. I forget the name of the movie, but one of the lead characters was named Lark. She decided then she would name me and she stuck to it, and here I am.
I like to do movies, because I love becoming different characters, and telling different stories through different eyes, and affecting someone's life in one way or another.
The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for the world.
The actors I looked up to when I was a teenager, they all just disappeared into different characters.
My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.
When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.
I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different characters, or sort of more caricatures.
I always love to do something different and new and be challenged by different characters.
I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.
A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.
It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
Movies and acting are so much fun. I love playing different characters and doing different genres. It's all still very interesting to me.
I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.
I've had the opportunity to do a wide range of stuff, a lot of different characters and they've all had their own kind of thing.
That's why I like old monster movie actors, because they transform into different characters or creatures.
I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.
Whenever I do a movie I always like to base my character off of a couple different characters.
Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast.
The most crucial thing is to learn the craft: how to string sentences together, how to make your dialogue sound like real people, how to properly pace a story, how to develop interesting characters.
There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the main characters.
I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.
One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.
I just want to play interesting characters, and I want to work with the best directors I can work with.
I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.
Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be an obstacle.
If it's a language you don't understand and you're not concerned with the meanings of the words, your impression comes from how the words look, particularly if the language uses different characters.
I enjoy playing evil, but not one-dimensional evil characters. I like the ebbs and cracks in the armor.
To be honest, I don't think of any of my characters as minor characters - they're all the main characters in a story that I don't necessarily get to tell.
There are lots and lots of different films that I love, and watching different characters and how different people play them.
What's best for business is just continue to have an entertaining product with great, interesting characters.
I think you've got to have a depth, a deeper depth to take stand-up into acting, but I think it really helps you as a stand-up to home into different characters and stuff easily.
My problem has been with purely digital films. I feel the danger there is that the kind of short-cuts you end up having to take are the ones that are most telling in the main characters.
One of the things I love, more than anything, is jumping around and playing lots of different parts. I love the variety of playing different characters.
Having an opportunity to play different characters, and work in different mediums, that's what's fun. The worst question you could be asked is, "What do you like better, film, television or theater?"
You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.
