Character Quotes
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I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.
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In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed. But there also character is made. The valley of suffering is the vale of soul-making.
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I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.
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I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds.
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I genuinely enjoy the puzzle put before me with a crossover - how do I use this bigger piece of the Marvel Universe to tell a character-based tale I wouldn't normally think to tell?
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My American accent is really, really good. I started out in the theater, doing all different characters with all different accents. When I first came to America, I thought I would be playing American, all the time. It was just weird how it worked out that I played more international characters.
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I've said that I would play anything to do with 'Star Wars.' But really, deep down, I would love to come back as Darth Maul - that's what I want to do. I would go crazy, go mental, lock myself in a cabin, you know. Do the whole 'method' for two or three months, spear-fishing and stuff, just to play the character again.
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I was blessed enough to meet Pope John Paul when I was about 19 or 20 years old in the Vatican; I had that privilege, .. My mother took me to visit him and I remember distinctly his incredible charisma and personal charm and his warmth and compassion. You felt it immediately the minute you met him, and that spirit I came away with, having met the man, is something that I've been constantly working on to infuse the character with, so that we can have his spirit and his love and his compassion, because that's really the essence of the man.
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If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.
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Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than that inconceivably complex movement which, in its entirety, we designate as human life; Its mysterious origin is veiled in the forever impenetrable mist of the past, its character is rendered incomprehensible by its infinite intricacy, and its destination is hidden in the unfathomable depths of the future...
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I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.
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In 'Cavalry,' I had one scene where I was playing a pretty awful character.
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Bausch is a wonderful storyteller. He's a mature writer who has a lot of confidence in the quality of character. He doesn't need to hook you with a sneaky plot and zany characters.
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It's just nerve-wracking in general to write 'Superman,' right? I'm a life-long superhero fan, and he is the character that kicked off the entire genre.
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Try and live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs.
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You have to do something different, or you are just the guy who goes out there and has a great match, but nobody cares. You have to have different layers to your character.
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The key to the understanding of the character of the conscious lies in the region of the unconscious.
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The thing about any character is that you want to be sincere.
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It seems like it has kind of taken off where people are saying 'oh it's a female character' and it just kind of grew. But my intent in saying that was humour. You know, you have to show Link when you create a trailer for a Zelda announcement.
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If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.
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I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death."
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But I was very proud of our team. I thought they showed a lot of character, showed a lot of competitiveness on the sideline. Because when we got behind, the sideline was great. ... We kept our poise, kept our confidence.
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Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.
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The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long time, his entire character; and, more often than not, he ends up becoming what the German language so appropriately calls a Fachidiot (professional idiot).
