Quotes About Portrayal

I would love to play Indira Gandhi.

I'm usually the bad guy, you know, but I do a lot of different genres of acting.

I think good acting is always character acting.

I am a good father in real life, that's why I'm able to play a good father on screen so convincingly.

It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.

I hope wit comes through in all the characters I portray.

When I was playing Gandalf, I didn't think, 'Oh my dear, I'm playing a 7,000 year old wizard,' because I've never met one, and I don't know what they're like.

I confess I sometimes sneak a peek at 'The Big Bang Theory.' I chuckle at their antics. But I cringe when they portray physicists as clueless nerds who are doormats when it comes to picking up women.

There is a very thin line dividing characterisation from impersonation. I've to make sure I don't cross over into mimicry.

The media portrayal of women is always angled towards looking thinner and skinnier and... that's not good.

The hardest achievement in acting - in my opinion, anyway - is nailing a role that absolutely nobody else could have played. Pacino owned Michael Corleone... but DeNiro could have owned it as well. Who else, though, but Val Kilmer could have nailed Jim Morrison? Does anyone besides Will Ferrell pull off Ron Burgundy?

Dialogue is not always the best way to show emotion, to show your thought process, or to reveal yourself, as a character.

I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call indicating, when you twirl your mustache.

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

There's something very cool as an actor when you have an opportunity to play somebody who's real, whether they're still alive or not, but who has lived a life.

My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.

I liked being able to portray a woman at this particular age and at this point in her life.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

Just being the first person to bring the character to life is really fun and exciting.

As soon as you put an actor to a person who is real, that person comes to life through another person.

Actors are as good as they allow themselves to be, and to portray life, you have to have as broad an experience of it as you possibly can, so everything's worth it.

if you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority...

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

I've always been attracted to Pertwee's portrayal of the Doctor as dashing man-of-science, charming, sceptical, and rational.