Quotes About Character

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

Hunx is kind of his own person that is not really me in my normal life.

I don't live with my role, I'm a really normal person.

I don't know what I am. I guess you can call me a character actor in the sense that I'll never be an ingenue. You know, that's over. My shot was missed. I take a normal person and make them more of a character. I don't know what that would be called.

I basically think that I'm a fairly nice, normal person with just a few eccentricities.

I'm normally a really humble guy.

As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.

Normally when I'm sent a script I'll read it through to see how it hangs as a story and then I'll go back and read it through again and look at the character.

In 'Breaking Bad,' we have a lead character who definitely finds himself in a situation he would never have expected to find himself in normally.

In the work that I normally do, you have a whole script, a whole arc, that you play. And I do believe a good actor will play every bit of information they're given.

Bruce Willis is Bruce Willis in every single movie I've seen him in, except 'Death Becomes Her' and 'Mortal Thoughts,' which is another movie he was in that was very different from what he normally does.

Normally, you have to wait for the costume department to help you out of costume.

I normally don't concern myself with, 'Will audiences like me or like my character?'

Normally, the action is just a gratuitous thing. In the case of Bourne, he was going to learn about himself in the action scenes.

I normally play very serious characters.

To me, there was something moving about the idea of telling the story of a lady who is, in a way, a forgotten character - someone who would normally be a secondary role in a movie.

You normally either get bitten by a character and decide that is the way to play it, and then that begins to inform everything you do, or you decide, 'I don't need to use much character in this - I have basically got to be me'.

John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the 'Con' into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the 'vat' into Conservative!

I'm not going to offer and take a guy at North Carolina that I don't meet. And if I don't like him, I'm not taking him.

As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they're not caring about you, they're caring about the character.

I'm not interested in money.

I'm not interested in just being the hot girl. I'm really goofy, and I love laughing, and that's such a big part of who I am.

I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.

I'm not interested in a pretty world. It's boring to me. If you're lucky enough to get to play a character for a long time, it's life-changing.