Character Quotes
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It was really the dream role, and when they first cast me, and I started playing Dolores in the Westworlds and all I knew was the analysis mode and her prairie-girl character, I thought, "Yeah, of course I can do this, and I'm good at it, but why did they pick me?" Not because I'm not capable, but I'm also kind of a tomboy, edgy, so I was curious.
Evan Rachel Wood
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You need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep your character interesting.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
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I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.
Armando Iannucci
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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
Jane Austen
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You'll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isn't rolling.
Brendan Fehr
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I've always wanted to be one of those actors who could change from character to character, like Daniel Day Lewis or Jeffrey Wright.
Kevin Daniels
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Yes, I play this evil, mean character Victoria in 'Baywatch.' It is so much fun. I didn't want my first film in America to be just another role.
Priyanka Chopra
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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.
Elizabeth Debicki
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It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown.
Charles Grandison Finney
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Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.
Donald Miller
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I really loved it because it really informed his way of seeing my character and the story. If you look closely he always had this metaphor of an egg, of a little chick pecking her way out of a shell, and in one scene in the kitchen there are all these white plates on a wall and then in the middle there is a yellow plate so even that looks like an egg. And a lot of the furniture was almost sculpted in that way as well. It was really cool to see that.
Mia Wasikowska
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Character is more important than talent.
Edwin Louis Cole
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There was one film that I really wanted. This was a long time ago; it was a film called 'Fracture.' Ryan Gosling ended up doing it with Anthony Hopkins. It wasn't a giant box-office success, but I really enjoyed the script, and I enjoyed the character. I got pretty close and was kind of disappointed it didn't go my way.
Chris Evans
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Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.
Chris Pine
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It depresses me when people expect me to be like the characters I play on film. I'm not some whiny loser punk, I'm a man's man.
Zach Braff
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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
William Shakespeare
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The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character and as the character I visit the locations of the story many, many times. Only after that I start drawing the character, but again I do it many, many times, over and over. And I only finish just before the deadline.
Hayao Miyazaki
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I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.
Geoffrey Rush
