Quotes About Character

That's what's so great, I get to play any character in the world. And I think that's one of the things that makes doing 'Comedy Bang Bang' or other improv podcasts so fun, as well as my own, is that you can really explore a character deeply for a long period of time that is nothing like yourself.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character and history, etc.

If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters.

Honestly, at one time I though Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean I wasn't born until 1961 and I grew up in Indiana.

I always view auditions as the first and last time I'll ever do a character, so that's how I like to see the joy in it. Assuming I don't ever book this, I get to play this character this one time and give it my all because I'll never play it again.

We all are who we are. We're not necessarily good, and we're not necessarily bad. So much television, in the writing, is so one-dimensional, in that aspect, where you have your good guys and you have your bad guys.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.

The more complicated the character, the better I am. It's the one-dimensional crap that I had to do for years that drove me crazy.

I don't know any women who are one-dimensional, so why would I play one?

I love playing a character who has an adversary she can go one-on-one with.

When I first got the audition for Shado, I went online and subscribed to DC Comics and read a bunch on Shado and the Yakuza, just to get to know her character better.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

I love to sing, but I really only love to do it when it goes along with acting, when it's my character singing. I'd rather not do an album or tour.

The only time I've played a real baddy was when I was Regan in 'King Lear.'

Cogsworth, the character I did on 'Beauty and the Beast,' could be a bit flamboyant onscreen, because basically, he is a cartoon. But they didn't want Cogsworth to become Disney's gay character, because it got around a gay man was playing him.

Luv Ranjan does not believe in bikini bodies. Therefore, he always insists that we look like relatable characters onscreen.

'Jai Lava Kusa' is my best look onscreen.

Often our onscreen personas are different from who we are. Actors like Kamal Haasan, who is such a genius, has never played a role close to what he is in real life.

Good acting is confused with good dialogue delivery. Acting is about all about performance, and the way we interpret and understand the character that we bring alive onscreen.

What I'm pretty much giving you when you see me onstage is me; it's not a fake character.

As long as I don't go onstage completely normal and then jump into character onstage, I assume that most fans would be able to accept me as the creator. I can comment on the work the same way a director would on his movie.

I have never been a different person onstage than I am off.