Quotes About Character

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

I do take my characters back home. In fact, I am the reel person in real life during the entire shoot. This affects me and my family because I tend to be eccentric or irritable during these times.

You can't have Alan Partridge as Eddie the Eagle!

For me, Edge was just a character.

I think my parents raised me well. And I'm pretty straight edge. All my friends make fun of me for being straight edge.

I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.

I think playing a negative character is more difficult and challenging, since you have a lot to work on, and you have to put a lot of efforts.

I don't think I'm a bad egg.

I always wanted to have sort of an alter ego.

I am not saying I don't think I'm good, but I'm not the type of player to have an ego or big myself up.

I'm not into fame and ego.

I don't have an ego; I'm not egotistical or anything like that.

It takes a great strength of character to arrive at Real at eighteen years and make a journey like I have so far.

There is a large element of me in every role I do.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

There's an element of ego to writing the Riddler. You research a lot of things that you end up jettisoning as a writer, and Riddler was a lot of fun to get to have that sort of annoying know-it-all personality lording over the city. He's a lot of fun to write about.

A lot of the time you find that elements of a character are brought out by the actors playing them.

I love playing Eleven.

'Elizabeth' is something I've looked to a lot for a strong female leader.

I would like to do the Elvis Presley.

It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.

An actor has to embody a role.

I understand what it is that actors do. They embody someone that they aren't.

I think the challenge for me in this role is going to be, is there any heart in Negan? For me, I look at that as a challenge as an actor, and that's the kind of thing that I embrace and really look forward to.