Character Quotes
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When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.
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I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative.
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I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.
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An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.
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I'm very much the type of actor that once I embody the character, I could stay in it from the beginning to the end.
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I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've done recently. I look at who is directing. Those two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the screenplay. I look at the arcs of the scenes and characters and relationships.
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Usually when you're doing concepts for a character, you just try a couple different things to see what sticks.
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There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.
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The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.
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I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.
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Fear brings out the best in some people and the worst in others. It's a test of character, for individuals and nations.
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To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.
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I wouldn't call myself a method actor, but I have my own method. I do my own research. I come up with a background for the character. I'm not a club man. I don't like isms. I've never really studied Stanislavski.
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It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.
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When you're writing a team book where every character already has his or her own series, you don't have dominion over them as individuals - but what you can exploit is their relationships with one another.
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I'm always writing from some difficult place and seeing how the character survives... or doesn't.
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My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character.
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The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.
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Within months after reading the novel 'The Hunger Games,' I went from telling my mom that I could see myself as this character to actually getting the role. My mother reminds me that if I could manifest such an important role just because I wanted it so much, all of my dreams are possible.
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I'm a physical actor in that I start with a physical sketch of the character. I find it easier to find inspiration from the outside in. If I find the character's tensions and the way he carries himself or looks, that's going to affect how I talk. So that's how I start to create that person.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Green Arrow was a very complicated character to take on because he has archaic weaponry. Catwoman, I think is more of a simple archetype to grasp, so it will be about nuance. But I think you need three or four issues before you say, 'Ah ha! Now I really know how to write this character!' You're carrying them around with you.
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I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.
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The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.
