Quotes About Characters

If you can play lots of different characters, that's fun. As long as the material is good, that's what the attraction is for me.

Actors tell stories and we play different characters, and not all of them are healthy.

I just want to challenge myself and play some different characters.

I want the chance to play very different characters, and I've always wanted to do more films.

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is, every sound I can make has been harvested.

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.

What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen.

'Saturday Night Live' is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.

The cult of celebrity turned me off, and when the opportunities came along for me to play different characters, that's what I went for rather than the safe choices.

I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.

I love playing different characters.

With those long American TV contracts you think, 'yes, at the end of that I'd be rich.' But at the same time you feel inside you a kind of death, because I enjoy playing lots of different characters.

I didn't want to give up my career. That's what kept me alive, kept me going. I couldn't stop - didn't want to stop - being all these different characters.

I played Li'l Abner and Batman in school plays; I wanted to be an actor to play all these different characters.

People have certain expectations from me, and I want to do different characters.

I like that, in voice acting, you can play different characters than you can when you're on camera and you're limited by your physical being.

I was looking to play different characters, and films didn't offer many choices.

Different characters help you grow in cinema.

I enjoy playing different kind of people.

If I ever got to do television, I would be interested in doing different kinds of characters and stories, and television doesn't lend itself to that.

I think it's great to have a lot of shows that are featuring women in different kinds of characters, which wasn't so always.

In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

For me, it is important to pick up characters which I can relate to. Or I recall an incident in my life or tap into my innermost emotions and try to bring that reality on to the screen.

I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.