Character Quotes
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I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves.
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I definitely try my best not to stay in character when I'm not on set, which can be more difficult in some roles than others.
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You need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep your character interesting.
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I create a playlist for each and every character that I play.
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A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.
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I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.
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I've seen lawyers who don't represent me and spokespeople who do not know me speaking for me. These characters always seem to surface with dreadful allegations just as another project, an album, a video is being released.
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The lead character in 'Adaptation' is pretty much me but with more talent. Every time I watch 'Adaptation,' I feel very emotional because it makes me be kinder to myself and see the human situation a little more clearly.
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Whatever we may think or affect to think of the present age, we cannot get out of it; we must suffer with its sufferings, and enjoy with its enjoyments; we must share in its lot, and, to be either useful or at ease, we must even partake its character.
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The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.
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You know, the character of Isabelle in 'Love Crime' is the only character I feel the furthest from. I have nothing to share with her, so it was really difficult. Being an actor of composition is something, but you always base yourself on something you know about.
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Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.
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Yes, I do feel a deep responsibility every time, every character, everything that I do.
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All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.
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I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?
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I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I'm really Desperate Dan.
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One of the first things I was taught as an actor was, 'Don't judge the character.'
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I never went after character payments. I'm pretty much terrible at naming characters, so I usually name them after people I know.
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I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.
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The measure of your character is not what you do when people are looking. It’s what you do when you think no one is looking.
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We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear away the misunderstandings, the debris that prevent people from accepting that God who wants to accept them.
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I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply. I've always been used to a certain amount of struggle, and that prepared me wonderfully for a mature age.
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For my character, I mostly shot in the jungles and also did stunts and fight sequences on the harness. At the end of the day, I used to be hurt and bruised, but I completely enjoyed doing all these.
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The Bible is forbidding when you start to read it. The language is odd. The stories start and stop herkily-jerkily. The characters behave in inexplicable ways. It takes a little bit of time to get into the rhythm of the book. I found reading the first 15 chapters of Genesis very very difficult. Once I got past there, I loved reading, and found it very easy. When you get used to the Bible, it becomes thrilling to read (like any great book - I just had exactly the same experience with the Odyssey).
