Character Quotes
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Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.
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Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character's mind would work.
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'Rozabal' was theological while 'Chanakya' is political. Unlike 'Rozabal,' which was about research, the aim of 'Chanakya' is plot, plot, plot, which carries the character. The common DNA, of course, is history.
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To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.
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I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.
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Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring into your civilian work. Same with film, architecture, music, sports. That's one tributary of the autobiography.
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If anyone out there wants me to play a Pre-Raphaelite character, I'd do it in a flash. That's what is so curious about my playing a modern doctor. It's not the sort of part I saw for myself when I began acting.
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I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.
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The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a character address moral being in a universal and important way? If it does, then it's literature.
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I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.
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Comedy is all about the character. When you're too focused on the gags, the character suffers, and you don't get the laugh. Comedy has to come from the character.
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The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.
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It's just so much more exciting to have no limits and to be able to take your character as far as you want or need to get where you want to go.
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I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me.
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I always keep my options open. I always say, "Make me an offer and send me the script, and if it's something that I can connect to or relate to..." The character has to intrigue me, and the project overall has to intrigue me. And if it all lines up properly, then we can get into the business side of it. But it's always about the creative first.
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I'm a natural blonde, but my hair has been almost every color you can imagine. As an actor, I like to get into my character as much as I can, and often that starts with the color of my hair.
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Blurryface is this character that I came up with that represents a certain level of insecurity.
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I hope to create characters that people want to watch - and they either want to be or are, or it's something that they recognize.
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The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.
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There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.
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I did a character called Captain Q for Nestle's Quik. Those commercials were kind of funny.
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It's often said that the most important qualities in a chief executive are character and judgment.
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Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.
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I would tell any actress that the trick is to play all the female characters on your show, and then all the men are yours.
