Quotes About Character

I think competitiveness is taken in a different way by different people. I'm not a yeller and a screamer, a jumper and a pusher.

I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.

Everybody's funny in different ways.

Even if I do get stereotyped, I would like to think that it is more of a challenge because if you are given one character and asked to play in 10 different ways, it says more about me as an actor.

People need to differentiate me from my roles.

Costume is a massive thing. I think costume makes you stand differently.

I try to remain the same player and person that I am all the time. Eventually, you grow up and think a little bit differently. But the core of the mind and the person is still the same as before. It is one of the main characteristics that it is important for me to stay the same.

I am super nice, I am great, even in the dressing room. I am also quite shy. But when there are difficult times or when you have to show your character, you can count on me. The players who have known me for a while know this.

I guess my personality is that of a modern, strong Chinese woman. I don't believe in destiny. There are many things that can be changed. I don't like to be defeated by difficulties. I love freedom, so when I am shaping a character, I usually do it the way I want. I always find some part of my own character in a role.

Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

I just want to play strong characters, whatever that is in. For me, television is where it's at. You get to play a character for a long period of time, and you get to dig deep. It's a home to go to.

I really think I tried to capture the essence of the comics: what I thought would be the essence of Elektra. And then, as any character that I play, I really tried to dig inside me and try to reach real emotions and transpose that in her world, in who she is.

There's no set rule, but when you look at the script, you start thinking about this person and how to create this human being on screen. You dig deeper into a script.

When you talk about a man like David Bowie, you have to go in there with dignity.

It's very tough for a ballplayer to get proud and keep his dignity.

I'm not bankrupt of fun, life, my dignity, my character, my essence.

You have to add some sort of dimension to each of your characters because everyone has their own layers.

When you do a half-hour show, there's only so much you can do. At best, you're going to get a character with two-and-a-half dimensions.

There are directors who don't cast you for the way you act but for the way you are, the way you behave around the dinner table.

What kind of a dinosaur am I? I guess something like a triceratops. A triceratops is not too dynamic, but has a little strength.

I would really love to direct one day. I think there are certain actors who love the character and the performance and that's all they want to be a part of.

I would love to write a script where the main character is a woman. I know I can direct a film where the main character is a woman. I cannot write that film.

We thought about it, what we want to tell, and I didn't want to move it directly into the Nazi times. I thought it's much more interesting to see how BloodRayne became BloodRayne.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.