Quotes About Character

I try to keep my voice natural for each character, but the spirit and the cadence and breathing for each character is totally different. It's those things that set each role apart from the others.

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.

Breathing is always key in any character. When you have a character with no voice, that makes it even more important.

Sometimes you even start to sound like the character because you're living and breathing them every day on the set. It gets into your bones.

I do a 15-minute meditation and breathing exercise every day after shooting. That helps me to come out of character.

Losing exposes character, and winning breeds it.

Adam Sandler in 'Punch-Drunk Love' is brilliant. Brilliant, brilliant.

Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.

I learned that the acting I really like is when the actors did a lot of bringing themselves, and where they're at at the moment, to the character.

I got 'Power' on my own through my agent and my team. I didn't know 50 until I got on the show. Because my character is so close to his, we spent a lot of time as friends. But even in that, I didn't really bring up music to him because I saw how everybody else was bringing up music to him.

For me, when my agents and reps send me a script, I read it through, just for the story purpose of it, and then I read it again to think of my character and see if it's something that I'm interested in bringing to life.

If the end brings me out right, what people said about me won't make any difference, and if the end brings me out wrong, 10 angels saying I was right won't make any difference.

Every character brings new light to a different part of myself, which is something I love about every role I get to play.

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

When I became a babyface again, I just had to turn the light on, brother.

There are writers out there who say they're writing a second series, and then you pick it up and it feels exactly the same, only the lead character is blonde instead of brunette.

My parents are really honest when they watch something. My nan is brutally honest. She'll tell me, 'Oh, you looked awful in that scene,' and I'm like, 'Well, I was giving birth at the time, so it probably worked with the character, Nan.'

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

I loved 'Buddy Faro.' I loved the whole idea.

He wasn't Bugs without the gags we gave him.

Gemma Arterton in 'The Master Builder' at the Almeida - she was absolutely brilliant. Ibsen is difficult and quite hard to follow, but she just brings the stage to life.

To see my brother, see my friends, I think it builds character for me, just being accountable for myself.

Achievement builds character.

I think as an away team, if you like that type of atmosphere where everybody's against you, you know it's going to be just you and your guys there for three hours trying to get a win. When you can get a win in that environment, I think it builds great character.