Quotes About Characters

O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.

Bigg Boss' is a show where you cannot fake or act. And most of these television actors pretend to be the characters they play. I accept the audience doesnt know me, but they will, and I am sure they will fall in love with me too.

I think it's a great pity in the Anglophone world that we conflate cinema verite and Direct Cinema; they're, in fact, ontological opposites. In Direct Cinema, we create a fictional reality with characters and pretend we're not that.

I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.

Everybody has their own agenda, and that makes 'Power' a dark world. There aren't any really clean characters.

Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough.

When you are dealing with something that's crazy, you still want actors to play characters and find the reality of the situation, no matter how absurd the situation is.

For whatever reason, gay characters, or characters that deal with sexuality issues, who are black, in 'black films'... are typically not dealt with with any sort of complexity. They're exoticized: their being gay is sort of the point.

It's really, always, the story and the characters that come first, and the other things are kind of dealt with in time or, in fact, driven by the story.

I like those really multidimensional characters like Dean Ambrose and Bray Wyatt.

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience.

There's this responsibility you feel to present a certain thing that kind of respectability politics. I think that became the only accepted way of defining black culture. I started to become too aware of 'How does this look?' instead of 'Who are these characters?'

Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree.

Having worked with some of the characters in football and having to be nice to them - and knowing your job depends on you having to be nice to them - just doesn't appeal to me.

If you depict one home and the drama moving around one family, people love it because the characters become identifiable.

It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.

So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more fun.

I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.

I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters.

The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.

I have died in enough TV and films.

Any opportunity I can get to showcase different characters, I absolutely love.

I want to play many different characters.