Quotes About Character

It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.

In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.

I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a breaking point.

People seem to think of me as a goody-goody who never curses, but I can be very nasty if I'm pushed. Cross me too many times, and I'll never talk to you again.

I always pushed back on doing long-form. I imagined SpongeBob as being simple, and I wanted to concentrate on character humor.

Maybe there's something in the Oregon character that pushed me into the kind of life that I took up.

For me, what really excites me about my characters and what pushes their core is the kind of dark, sad side of life.

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

There's something about actors - not stars, but actors - if they have the character, and someone is pushing and shoving them to be the best they can be, they enjoy that.

But sport is about character. It is about understanding how a team works, about pushing the team. I also wanted to do it because of where I am from as a human being. That's what London people want: thinking outside the box, new ideas.

People are used to seeing me in make-up and blow-dried hair but after a point I felt like pushing myself. As an actor, I try to inhabit the character. It is the way to tell people about your skills through your looks.

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

What do I know about Mitt Romney? I know that he's a self-serving egomaniac who puts himself first, who has a chip on his shoulder, and thinks that he should be president of the United States.

When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.

It is always the genuine Teemu Selanne that you're seeing. He never puts on a show. It is Teemu. And that's what we love about him.

One of the coolest ways to start building a character is the way he moves his mouth, what part of the mouth he puts his words into, how he expresses himself, and there's a certain flavor you get with a dialect.

If someone puts a character in front of me - no matter what it is, whether there has been a film or not - I want to be that character, not imitate it. There's a difference - a big difference.

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

I just love characters that are complex, that you can dig into and keep itching the scratch and never quite be satisfied because they have enough going on with them that it's like a giant puzzle.

I think people make a really big deal that I'm this big character-issue guy, and I've got red flags. I'm not.

Every place you go to, they have their own little flair.

I think Impact Wrestling can stand on its own without Ric Flair, but it's always nice to have a guy like that around.