Character Quotes
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I like to play kind of the girls-that-eat-worms kind of character.
Jessie Buckley
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Being an actor is a lot more involved than many people realize; there are hundreds of ways to play any character. Even for a stylized bad guy, there are 4 or 5 different personalities I can play off the top of my head without thinking - better and more experienced actors can do dozens or hundreds.
Conan Stevens
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We always have to show our character on the pitch, and I show my feelings.
Diego Costa
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I can be unkind to someone in the street or in the subway - I'm a bad-tempered person - but I'm unable to be unkind to a character. They exist because of me, and I have responsibility for them.
Claire Denis
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And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.
Val Guest
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It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.
Richard Kiel
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More of him came from my step-dad, who is now passed away. The initial creators of the show kind of based the character on their dads and then I added my dad.
Kurtwood Smith
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With 'Richard,' I was excited to make this film with such an amazing role for an actor. Play a wide range of emotion and really invest myself in the character.
Jack Reynor
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I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
Frances McDormand
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I'm building a career as big as humanly possible so I can be in a 'Star Wars' project. My life goal is to have a character in the 'Star Wars' universe, film or other media. I just want to go to my grave knowing I played some character or some character based on my likeness was part of that world.
Rahul Kohli
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Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It takes a while to establish a character. Richard Boone once told me he didn't really get the character in 'Have Gun - Will Travel' until the 16th show. You just plant a seed, water it, let the sun shine on it, and hope it blooms.
Peter Graves
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People of a certain age still remember me as Edna Garrett. They often want to give me a hug because the character was so warm and nurturing. I don't mind at all. I think it's very nice.
Charlotte Rae
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Everything I've ever learned about acting - and I went to theater school - was about playing what the character wants and throwing yourself fully into going after what the character wants.
J. August Richards
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I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others... name me ten equally big, iconic Wonder Woman stories. Much harder. That ain't the character's fault, that isn't sexism, that's just not servicing the character.
J. Michael Straczynski
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I had no idea what I was signing up for. I auditioned for some random character. I knew the sides were fake, but what they were trying to capture was an emotional toughness and a woundedness. I knew I liked the character. I didn't know who the character was, but I liked the spirit of the character.
Caity Lotz
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To me, it's really not about how I look - it's about who I can be. It is my job to bring the character to life and my duty to fit into the jigsaw in that story.
Imelda Staunton
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Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.
Barret Oliver
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The principal element of Suprematism in painting, as in architecture, is its liberation from all social or materialist tendencies. Through Suprematism, art comes into its pure and unpolluted form. It has acknowledged the decisive fact of the nonobjective character of sensibility. It is no longer concerned with illusion.
Kazimir Malevich
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I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.
Emmy Rossum
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My very favorite costumed character I've played would be Abe Sapien from the 'Hell Boy' movies. I love this guy.
Doug Jones
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As an actor, I have to watch people and observe their behaviors - this is how I create characters.
Josh McDermitt
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I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.
Laura Dern
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Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit.
Christopher Meloni