Quotes About Characters

There are always different roles and questions to be asked about certain characters.

Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get such good scripts and the time to really make much more three dimensional characters.

My characters - no, make that most characters - are seeking the shelter of narrative resolution, a place of quiet and grace.

I like playing dark, offbeat, quirky characters.

People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a lovable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.

People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a loveable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.

I was always a very quirky kid. I remember very early like fourth or fifth grade doing pratfalls to make my friends laugh, like falling on the ground on the playground and doing like bits and characters.

I loved Gwyneth Paltrow in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' and Reese Witherspoon in 'Election.' I love quirky films and characters like that.

But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.

I'm an actor. I have to play weird characters, quirky characters, strange characters, sometimes characters I don't understand.

In the past, I was always drawn to really quirky, idiosyncratic characters.

Playing weird and quirky characters, like those with weird nuances, I find very interesting.

In 'Winnie the Pooh,' a lot of the characters have serious flaws: Pooh is sort of a food addict. Rabbit is OCD, and Owl is a compulsive liar.

I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

From the moment we started working on the first 'Wreck-It Ralph,' we knew there were so many possibilities with these characters.

For as long as I can remember, I was always creating random characters.

As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and sometimes writing takes a turn and it's not something we necessarily have control over. It's just a lot of random dumb luck, so when things click, you've just got to enjoy it.

My goal is to broaden and deepen the range of African-American characters on television, so I always try to show human beings.

I think in more ways than one 'Uyir' did a lot good, getting the scope to perform. Things have really fallen in place since then. Breaking free of the shackles has given me the rich option to choose and pick from the range of characters coming my way.

Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.

With repertory, you had to play all these different characters. The range of roles is really what I fell in love with, every night getting to become somebody different. That was my idea of acting, getting to be part of the company and a family.

I have been fortunate at being part of a contrasting genre of films and I portrayed a huge range of characters in these two decades.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.

There is a part of me that really just thinks it would be so funny to see the 'Veep' characters in 'Game of Thrones.'