Quotes About Character

Every characteristic of my character and my moves always came from my real life. My character is kind of close to my real personality.

When a script moves me, I find that I immediately understand a character. Of course not completely, but I do understand.

Accents are very easy for me. With me, it's clothing and makeup and hair and all that stuff that inform how the character moves and feels.

When I look at Stephanie McMahon's entire career, I'm always blown away at how she just moves your soul. Literally, my heart is moved by her. Either I hate her or love her - or love to hate her.

Wrestling and sports entertainment is not about the moves, it really isn't. It's about being able to evoke emotion in one facet or another.

We use wrestling moves to tell a story but it boils down to the character and being able to bring either love or hate out of your crowd.

Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

The most irritating movie character for me was that cradle-to-grave commie, Mary Poppins.

You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

I don't feel very glowing, especially after wearing makeup - and not necessarily my choice of makeup - for 12 hours straight on a movie set. When I'm playing a character, her look is sometimes different from my own.

Some are in it for the money, which is fine. Some of them are in it to be a movie star; that's another reason. Some actors - and this I never understand - will only play likeable characters. And if they're not likeable, they change them to be heroic.

You need to learn that, unless your lead character is written in a way that one of the 20 movie stars want to play him, your movie will not get made.

I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so you kind of have this amazing opportunity to go in many different places.

I like emotional horror. I don't like horror movies. I hate them. But, if you can make emotional horror movies, I'm in. If I can care and root for the main character, then I'm in.

I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the final characters in the film.

It is great that the industry is open to accepting character roles and moving away from the cliched Bollywood Hindi masala films.

I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.

I feel very lucky 'Arrested Development' was so successful because I never really got too much attention, and I was able to evolve instead of only being seen as one character.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud.