Quotes About Characters

I've always had aspirations to play other characters, but over the years I've always felt so happy and so challenged at 'Emmerdale.'

Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.

We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's the most challenging part.

I have just been lucky to get challenging characters every time.

To me, characters are at the heart of great literature.

I'm a bore. I save all my energy for my characters.

When I write, I just let my characters go, the way I let life go.

I find a lot of happiness in playing characters that have a lot of emotions. But even more important is the team that I am working with.

Some of the best bad guys in movies are funny and charming.

One thing I think is really important is chemistry, and if actors have chemistry, audiences will pick up on that. Audiences will root for characters that don't even exist as a couple because the actors' chemistry is so strong.

Even if you're the President of the United States, you still act like a little child and think like a little child sometimes. Childish behavior is what I look for in all of my characters because that is what makes them human.

I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.

I don't really have choices in the material I get. So I have to make the choices in the way I play the characters.

I read 'Love in the Time of Cholera' when I was 19, and I still think about the characters.

I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.

Inspiration is key for me in choosing characters.

I play DEA, CIA, FBI, LAPD; I got 'em all.

It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.

I love the idea of writing these huge, bombastic characters; I'll stay in the superhero world as long as I can.

You have to always try to think about them like real people first, and not just heroes. They have to be real characters. As people do more and more superhero stuff, the characters are what distinguish it, just like in cop shows.

A lot of superhero sequel movies, they resemble each other greatly.

One of my favorite things about the DC Universe, growing up as a reader, was just how big it was and just how many characters and superheroes there were. And how many odd characters there were.

I like the superhero comic books, and I like to see what the actors do creatively with the characters and how they bring these superheroes to life in the movies.

The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.