Quotes About Character

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you.

You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!

Meeting the person you are going to be playing is very unique.

These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.

What we loved about the movies we watched as children was the great character work. They are all about the place where the ordinary meets the extraordinary.

I think what makes me stand out from the rest is my melodic style combined with my voice, which has a distinct character to it.

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.

Just because someone is your family member doesn't mean they're a good person.

I agree to play a character if I feel that as an audience member, it will entertain me.

I love the levels, the depth, that the character has. He is the only member of the Justice League who cannot take off his costume. He is Cyborg 24/7.

I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.

As an actor, you need everything you can get to be truly scary and truly memorable.

When you have a meaty character to play opposite an actor you like, it becomes a memorable experience.

I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.

I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.

As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.

Since taking office, I have worked to fill my team with men and women of the highest integrity.

I'm not a big guy. I'm not a menacing guy. I'm not an intimidating guy. I may look that way, but just spend two seconds talking to me, and you know that's not who I am - not as a person, as a character. It's not who I intend to be.

When I key into the character of Five, I'm generally drawing upon a mental state - not so much thinking about the 58-year-old side of him, just the way he reacts to things.

You can't learn mental fortitude in a book. Those things are earned, not learned.

Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.