Quotes About Character

I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.

I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.

They have become part of us in that if we get dressed up as them, we don't actually have to have a script. You can just become them. You just become nervy.

I don't look at scripts in terms of commerciality. I just look at the part, the people involved.

I will do a film if there is a good scope for acting. I am looking for good scripts.

With my characters, I prefer to not say too much, and in fact, I tend to cut down some of the lines in most scripts I get.

I never choose scripts on the basis of whether the girl is like me. I don't want to play myself... I live with myself, and it isn't fun!

You start out with scripts pre-written, with no specific actor in mind, so you've got to build a character on top of that foundation. It's not just lifting words off the page, it's constructing a history around them as well.

I grew up watching 'Magnum, P.I.' and shows like that, where you could develop a character over eight seasons, with stories along the way.

People in Seattle and Tacoma know who I am as a person, and I don't think I am a character risk or have a character issue at all.

I want to be a good cricketer, but I am a person first and a cricketer second. I won't always be a cricketer, but I will always be a person.

Every actor dreams of getting a second chance to reprise a role.

If you spend 90 seconds with Ryan Reynolds, you know he's Deadpool. There is no one else on the planet that has any business being that character, ever.

To me, people are people. If a woman has a beautiful soul, and she's a celebrity, that's great. But she can be a secretary or a person working at Kmart. I don't care.

When I saw the 'Geronimo' script and was offered the part, it was overwhelming in that it brought back all of those feelings - made me feel what it's like to be in those shoes, the same shoes Geronimo himself might have been in.

It is to such men as Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson and Jackson and Franklin, all most lowly born, that we owe most of our greatness as a nation.

I'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express my feelings and not as a character on a screen but as myself.

I owe my mother who I am, and my father my drive.

I owe my entire to theatre. Simply because, I got so many chances to practice. Playing the same character for days, I could understand and practice on how to build that emotional arc.

Katniss Everdeen owes her last name to Bathsheba Everdene, the lead character in 'Far From the Madding Crowd.' The two are very different, but both struggle with knowing their hearts.

When I created Mary for the 'Batgirl' issue of 'Night of the Owls,' there was a lot of excitement at DC. Scott Snyder in particular was a champion for the character, bless him.

As you live with a character longer, you claim more ownership over it. You become more defensive of it. It becomes like a person that you know.

The last thing a director needs is an actress who feels an ownership towards a particular character.

I guess, as an actor, you have to bring something personal to the character - you've got to identify and love one element of the character, or else you can't really inhabit and find ownership.