Quotes About Character

When I am filming a movie, I think I tend to do what I want with my character.

As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.

I certainly hope they let me make another 'Doctor Strange.' I would do it in a second. I love this character. It's been the best filmmaking experience of my career; I work really well with these guys. It was a rewarding, collaborative process that I would do again in a second.

I'd like to be a Marvel character and get in one of those films.

I can't help but think what would have happened if a divisive character such as Trump were president during the 2008 financial crisis, at a time when leadership, compromise, and careful analysis were critical.

When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.

I think you always want to be open to things... it's just the matter of finding something I believe in, finding a character I believe in, and I think that's the way it should always be. I'm looking for things that excite me.

So, I'm going to go over on Angel. Joss is just going to find a way to keep me bleaching my hair, which is fine.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.

I think it is a blessing to be known by the name of your character. How many characters can we count on our fingertips? Not many. To be one of them is a big achievement.

I don't shoot two films at the same time. I finish one character and get into another character because I change my look for every film. It's difficult, but I enjoy doing that.

When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty.

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

TV, particularly network television, gives you a much greater opportunity to tell a long-form story, to develop a character and keep it detailed. Film, by its nature, is more finite.

I'm a firm believer that it's not the way you look or what you have, but what you've got inside.

I am a firm believer that the craziest stories that have been told and are being told are in anime. They have character arcs that go over, like, 400 episodes, like a 400-episode character arc.

'Coronation Street' was my first job, Zoe was a controversial character, and I wasn't used to everyone looking at me.

My first job was at Zellers in Belleville! It's weird that my first job was in a store like this. And 15 years later I'm playing a character on American television who works there.

I was working in Chicago, in theater and in commercials and anything that anybody would let me do. When I moved to L.A., I had made a choice to be a character actor, meaning that I wanted to become somebody else. That's what attracted me to becoming an actor in the first place.

Usually, one of the first things I think about when I'm developing a character is what they're wearing. I mean, it sounds very cheesy and very actor-y, but it really does help me figure it out.