Character Quotes

With every character, you alter, you can’t be attached to your own identity.

Nicole Kidman
- Character
- Identity
- Alter
I have had the opportunity to work with Andy Lincoln a lot. He's got a remarkable process. He just has these ways of sinking into the scene and into character that are very physical. He'll make these sounds and these grunts and these moans... I don't know what it is that he's channeling! It lets you know it's okay for you to do that, too.

Andrew J. West

As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above", I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.

Charles Dickens
There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

Charles Baxter
- Action
- Mistake
- Sound
When a director narrates a character, I find it normal to ask questions about the character's background, mood swings, eccentricities, behaviour... I do this to make my performance relatable. Directors who don't know their characters well find it difficult to answer these questions and, hence, find me annoying.

Radha Ravi
I think that's how any actor would make their performance convincing: by bringing an element of themselves into the character.

Alfie Allen
- Character
An absolutely different and distinctive character.

George Edmund Street
- Different
- Character
My video game character is a bit better looking than me, actually. I don't think he has to worry about his hair getting messed up.

Lleyton Hewitt
- Up
- Game
- Hair