Quotes About Character

I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'

I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.

If I had been born with an aggressive character, then maybe my palmares would have been longer.

I would love to do an action film. In college, I have played a lot of aggressive characters.

If you love a character that gets killed, it's agony.

Never agree to say or do anything that isn't you.

My aim was always to come back and prove myself because that is the type of character I am. Whether I get the chance is another thing, but I always want to prove myself.

When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy.

We just really wanted Hit-Girl to be a character who, in a sense, simply happens to be an 11-year-old girl, in the same way that Ripley in 'Alien' could have been a guy, but the part happened to be played by Sigourney Weaver.

Any time I approach a scene, it's not just what's on the page - it's how the camera's going to show or not show what's on the page. It's which character are we going to align with and what music is going to be playing.

The way I work, I didn't hold the accent all day.

You don't have to be an All-American. You just have to have character and courage, and I take that message very seriously.

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

The minute the director said action, you could see a different version of Sridevi altogether.

I might be an ambassador.

While doing movies, I enjoyed every bit of it - the ambience, my co-stars, my roles, the art of getting under the skin of a character, everything.

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

My character in 'Casa de mi Padre' is an ambitious woman. I had never played that kind of character before.

It's a very tough thing to run for office, but it's also the way the American people get to know you.

I don't think it should matter to the American people what color skin is on their president. What should matter is the content of their character.

I can have an androgynous quality.

If you saw me in 'The King and I,' I had that angelic, virginal face.

While we're playing the analytical game, I want us also to play the Angels game. And for all these guys, who you are as a human being matters.

I do figure every angle of a guy I'm acting - but not consciously 'til afterward.