Quotes About Portrayal

I think that I can do with the Penguin what Heath Ledger did with the Joker.

I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don't think anyone can argue that it was a false performance.

We have done 'Talvar' in three different parts, recreating three different scenarios. And so, it was very interesting for me as a performer to be a part of this film.

I think there's a responsibility to any character that you play that was a living persona.

I think it's sort of rare in TV shows or movies to see people being vulnerable. That's sort of scary to an audience.

I want to try and portray characters that are in real life, that you see day-to-day. If I were to just stay in my little village in Wales, I would have gotten a very small taste of a very big plate.

It's always the case, whenever you're doing someone real, how much you want to do an impression or a characterisation. If I was doing Churchill, or Gandhi - people know exactly how they talked, walked.

I did not have to think much doing Bob Biswas in 'Kahaani.'

One of the things I learned on medical drama 'Bodies' was that actors can't play ambiguity.

When you have a popular hero in your film, you have to think of what the masses expect from him. You have to portray the hero in such a way that they should adore him.

I think it's important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is human. It's not easy if you spend a lot of time in L.A. and get sucked into the hedonism of the industry.

I think Aishwarya Rai would be very suitable to play me in my younger days.

As much as I love to portray a character, I also love portraying a more natural, elegant persona - particularly when I get to enjoy the sunshine in comfy, elegant clothes.

It is never the thing but the version of the thing.

If I photograph you in the shadows, you become mysterious, perhaps unknowable. If I light you from above, so your eyelashes throw shadows on your cheeks, you could be a Hollywood film star.

we all have an exaggerated idea of our own personalities and don't recognize the truth if it's sufficiently brutally portrayed...

What was the point of all the odd questions he was continually shooting at her, Iris? Wasn't there something very queer about George lately? The odd fuddled look he had in the evenings! Lucilla attributed it to a glass or so too much of port. Lucilla would! No, there was something queer about George lately. He seemed to be labouring under a mixture of excitement interlarded with great spaces of complete apathy when he sunk in a coma.

I'd like to play a larger-than-life character done straight, like Clouseau. To move away from Dick Emery and towards Peter Sellers.

When I'm trying to find my way into a character, the voice and physicality are the first two things I do.

I've been really picky about the sort of characters that I want to represent.

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.

What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people.