Character Quotes
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You have what is known as a lot of character, meaning you can be wrong at the top of your lungs.
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Everybody thinks because of my character that I'm this wild girl and I am, I'm an actor, and I have that in me - but I'm actually very calm and mellow.
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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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I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.
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If it's present in the life of the character, I'll write about it. Kitchen, bedroom, church, I'll follow a character wherever they go.
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I learned that the acting I really like is when the actors did a lot of bringing themselves, and where they're at at the moment, to the character.
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My character in Ted Bundy was unaware of all the murders that were being committed by him, so I kind of tried to keep myself out of it and kind of keep an innocent point of view from it. The hard scenes for me were the sex scenes just because there's like sexual deviance going on and there was stuff that he want her to do and that was really disturbing.
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Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.
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No, I don't believe we've ever designed a character around a person. Usually, we start out with a kind of personality.
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In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.
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Any character can find an audience and work if you have passion for that character. You might have to just scrape off the dirt and the barnacles and pull it out and highlight it.
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'The Green Lantern' seems a little calculated to me. It's like, 'We've got to get on this gay bandwagon and make this character gay.' Like anything else, there's earnest expressions in the culture and then there's kind of bandwagoning.
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In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out.
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The challenge was the opportunity. When I read the first draft of Steve Kloves' fabulous adaptation - I hadn't read [Michael] Chabon's book at that time - what I was immediately captivated by was this group of characters that were at once so engaging and so messed up.
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We work with every one of them to see if their character wouldn't say a certain thing or if something is worded awkwardly - we work with them to rectify that.
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I've done soap operas in New York, playing a continuing character who goes through changes and develops, but none of that has created the enduring interest that 'Twin Peaks' has.
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You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.
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Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up...
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No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness.
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Whatever headspace you need to live in for your character is sort of where you stay in between scenes.
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I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another...
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When you consider that you're a character that doesn't speak, but you've still got to react to the other actors, you've got to make a noise of some kind.
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To play these twisted, tormented characters is very draining. You have to sit in the pocket of that character for the duration of the shoot, which is normally an average of three months, and that can be taxing!
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What's the trick to writing a great female character? Make her human.
