Quotes About Character

If anyone out there wants me to play a Pre-Raphaelite character, I'd do it in a flash. That's what is so curious about my playing a modern doctor. It's not the sort of part I saw for myself when I began acting.

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

On their own merits modest men are dumb.

Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

It's not that I'm necessarily looking for things that are so dark and emotional. But if I see something where the character goes through enormous change, it's very appealing to play all those levels, and that is probably going to involve some dark moments.

I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in me, I guess.

There are lots of moments that are great for an actress.

As long as there's Big Momma, we're going to bring you comedy.

I've done a lot of work in my life and have begun to let go of that need to be perfect, and I loved that my character in 'Moms' Night Out' was going through the same thing.

My integrity means more to me than any fame or money. When I say something, I want people to take it to the bank that I mean it and believe in it.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

A habit does not a monk make.

If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.

My thing is, I like playing guys who have a really interesting internal monologue.

The monologue is one of the most difficult and interesting forms of theatre for an actor to learn.

The monologue is an interesting space for an actor.

The negative characters made me very popular but were getting too monotonous.

I thought Godzilla was a mess, the monster had no character and the humans didn't either. They forgot to make the movie that went along with all these wonderful effects.

For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.

You can only be a monster if people let you be a monster.

One thing that's a lot harder to put into stories than you'd think is the idea of a traditional monster, because monsters with a capital 'M' don't inherently lend themselves to a story about your character. Unless one of your characters is themselves the monster, simply having a monster leads to a chase or a hunt.

Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.

Writing a song is about inhabiting a specific frame of mind and conjuring a mood, a character, an entire vision.