Character Quotes
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I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!
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It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.
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All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.
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One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.
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I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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The thing with movies is, because you have so little time, I always feel like there are more things we could've done with the character. If we'd done a sequel to 'The Thomas Crown Affair,' what would that have been like? But for the most part, you try not to think of that, because it's just going to break your heart.
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I grew up with 'Jane Eyre,' reading it at school, and it's one of those, I think, for a lot of women, a lot of girls, it's the iconic story and so many girls relate to Jane Eyre and her character.
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It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
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Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, 'Oh he's a comedy guy,' or the weirdo character guy or the villain.
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If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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Because I sidestepped all the stereotypical roles, in a way I've made a career out of not being Asian - a lot of my roles weren't written as Asian - so there's an impulse in me that wants to take a U-turn and play a very grounded, real Asian character, maybe an immigrant.
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I suppose the reason why I like acting is because I'm curious about human nature, and the less I know about a character on the page, instinctively, in a way, the better.
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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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I think that the character that I'm playing now is so fundamentally different than Ally that I haven't I haven't felt like I had to worry about it at all. But I definitely wanted to make a different choice.
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I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.
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I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.
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It's all about exploring the more unpredictable aspects in the character, not just fighting people.
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Everyone asks me, 'Why do you choose such subversive or shocking themes?' but when I'm alone in my office, I'm not like, 'OK I'm going to shock.' I want to write about a character who fascinates me, someone who I don't understand.
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Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.
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Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of the downgrade. A competent featured player can last a lifetime. A star, a year or two. There's all that agony of finding suitable stories, keeping in character, maintaining illusion.
