Quotes About Character

I've rarely played glamorous roles. I don't mind looking plain on camera.

Sometimes in theater, they'll talk about your character a lot before you enter, but that rarely happens in television.

But the fact I'm even getting to play a character that the producer, director and writers want me to play is a rarity in the industry. You'd think it happens all the time. It doesn't. There are so many hoops to jump through to get cast in something.

It's a rarity in this sport that you really get a guy that's not a good person. I think we've found that in Matt Hughes.

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

I'm not always a rat. Sometimes it just comes out.

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

I'd rather not have anything than be a liar.

I'd rather be real in the ring then someone who is trying to play a character.

Larger-than-life roles have never excited me. I'd rather play someone real who goes through obstacles and becomes a hero.

For me, I never take a job thinking it's going to grab ratings or that it's even going to be a success. I don't. I just take the job because I love the character. Or I love the script. Maybe I love the director. But whatever I do, I never think about how it will do. That is not in my hands.

I've been on the edge of everything, like one of those characters at the side of a Brueghel painting with a warty nose. I've been very lucky - I lived through three of the most profoundly important musical revolutions of the 20th century: latterday rock and roll, punk and then the rave culture.

When I play Raven, I have to play her at the height of my intelligence.

Raven's always trying to do the best she can for the group. Aside from the couple of mistakes she's made, she's always been a protagonist.

A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.

Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.

If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!

Eric Carter is a more raw, more emotional protagonist. He's a bit of an Everyman.

Everybody knows you can't have a party on 'Raw' without the bad guy.

Satyajit Ray made films the way films should be made - from start to finish. So whether you're needed on the set or not, you can spend your whole time thinking about your character.

I loved Ray from 'The Princess and the Frog.' He was my guy. There was no Ray before me, so there's a level of satisfaction there.