Quotes About Character

I don't want to protect my characters. I don't do it with Muslims, either. My job is not to make us look perfect. My job is to make us look messy.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache.

I'd really like to play a character who's inarticulate. I always play people with language. It would be good to play a mute or a fool or a saint.

It was nice to play something that felt a little more muted or internalized in 'The Daughter.'

This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through. I don't accept that he had to completely desecrate my character.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul.

If I fought like I was looking for a place in history, it would ruin me as a person. I don't think history is worth selling my soul.

Certainly my time on 'Revenge' was great; it was a different character I'd never played before.

Acting is different from mental gymnastics. You try to discover as much about the character as you can, but a large area is mysterious.

I really wanted to be part of 'Trinkets' and play Moe because there's something very mysterious about her.

Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.

I'm just interested in all of the different ways that a woman can be. We don't have enough, when it comes to American film, that shows all of the different complexities and ways that a woman is interesting and mysterious and dynamic and really complicated.

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

I think that's the magic of any part - unravelling the mystery of what kind of person your guy is based on the words he says and the actions that he does.

I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.

I'm really proud of all the stuff we've built with Green Lantern - from Larfleeze to the different corps. The universe has expanded and will live well past my run. It was more than just telling another story, but really giving back to the character by expanding and adding to their mythology.

The idea of science fiction, mythology, and creating a world is my favourite thing. I do love the reality of dramas and playing that, but being able to start from scratch, to completely build the character and this world, I love that.

You can write and write, but if you don't have someone who can nail that character, it's never going to live.

I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.

If you look at the character of Sadness, they really nailed my eyebrows.

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

I love trying to give some flesh to rather naked bones sometimes. I've always felt it my duty and to try and bring on the character's off-stage life, what happened that is not revealed.