Quotes About Character

Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.

I guess maybe directors see a face that seems to have been lived in. I know that my face has been lived in, yeah.

I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the character.

I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.

I'm not a dirty player.

Half of the basketball world thinks I'm this hothead, dirty player who can't get anything under control and probably thinks I'm arrogant and a selfish guy.

Eleven years in the league, I haven't had a dirty play. I haven't made a name in this league by playing that way.

I don't think, as an actress, you want to be beautiful. It's actually a disadvantage because that's not where all the interesting parts lie.

There's this whole assumption that girls like bad boys, but I have to disagree; I think 'nice' will go a long way.

I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.

You can meet me - and I won't disappoint. That's how I am.

When I think about football, I think about my love, my passion, what has football done for me as far as discipline, as far as learning how to lead. It taught me a lot about life.

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. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character.

There are many movies which come with an attitude of black and white. I am good and you are bad. And there are many movies that are also trying to see the reality as it is or to discover what really is behind the character or events.

Usually, I don't feel comfortable with a character until I've played him before an audience for several performances. It is not until after three months of performing that I learn to discover what I call 'all the nooks and crannies' of the person.

I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.

Every character, for me, is a new discovery.

Sometimes every single element of a character is a torturous discovery.

I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.

When 'Director's Kut' called me and asked to come for an audition, I went for it but there was no response for a couple of days. Then I got a chance to meet Rajan Shahi and discuss the character. I liked Pammi the moment I heard about the character.

I think it helped that 'Fleabag' had such a dramatic arc to it, even though it was disguised as a comedy.

One of the worst things in sports is when selfishness gets disguised as truth.

If you are a great guy off screen but you are a bad actor and are dishonest to your work, then I would not spend my money on you.

But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.