Character Quotes
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You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
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Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
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I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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I don't want to work just for the sake of working. Generally, if a good script comes in, I read it, and if it appeals to me, it appeals to me. And it doesn't have to be anything - it doesn't have to be the main character; it doesn't have to be a huge part.
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You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.
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I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
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It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.
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The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
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I think for everyone it's good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start rehearsing, to have an inner life.
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'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.
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'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day and, when the mix was done, feeling like I wanted to hear it over and over again. It was the comprehensive sound of the thing: the song itself, its character, the way the instruments sounded, and the way Tom Scott's tight horn arrangement fit in.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
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As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies.
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I played a tomboy character in 'Dohchay.'
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I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.
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People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate. And, sometimes, we communicate about things that are important.
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Sometimes I become attached to a character because I've gotten to explore him for so long, like in the case of Ben, but sometimes I fall in love with a throwaway character who exists for only one scene in a video game like The Drunken Villager in 'Diablo III' or Sandal in 'Dragon Age.'
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Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.
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I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the character, I think it's a lot of fun, and it's kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you're seeing a different crowd.
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I would stay on, but 'General Hospital' honestly doesn't seem to want that relationship with this character at the moment. They want little short doses during sweeps periods.
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When you talk about a character on a situation comedy, it's not just the actor. It's the writers, too.
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Typography extended its character to the regulation and fixations of languages. (p. 260)
