Quotes About Character

I even played a part in 'Miami Vice.'

Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.

If you care enough to look right, you care enough to act right. And vice versa.

I've been asked a few thousand times how much of Columbo is Falk and vice versa.

It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.

There are plenty of actors who've caught the singing bug and vice versa, but with musical performers, you're constantly a persona - which is something I love about acting: you play a character, you leave and you get to be yourself again.

If you are playing a Hispanic character who has to speak in dialect or in an accent, nail that dialect or accent. When I hear a character that's supposed to be Cuban speaking with a Mexican accent or vice versa, it grates on me and immediately pulls me out of the story.

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life, just being easy-going New Zealander Rose. Sometimes I can inhabit a feisty, vicious character. Sometimes I can inhabit a painfully shy British girl, or whatever it might be.

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.

I never try and play a bad guy to be bad and to be brutal and to be nasty and vicious, because I think you're going to be very cliche there. You know, you've got to find the truth in that character and what he believes in. It just happens that, you know, he's wrong.

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

I have a comic character - my sister said that I'm the victim of every joke I tell.

I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend.

I'm actually more comfortable playing the stroke victim or the girl with no makeup on, looking scruffy and it's all about what's going on inside rather than on the outside.

I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.

All those little acting rules you get, one of the interesting ones is, 'Play the opposite. Don't play 'victim.'

I always play what I call The Girl. The nice straight character. Sincere. Usually the victim. I'm put upon. I suffer.

To be honest I would like to do more movies, I've been a victim of my own success in that sense, as if you have a TV character that really endures, it's really hard to get into film.