Quotes About Character

Peter Boyle on Everybody Loves Raymond is more of an insane Dad.

We're all individuals. Lee Raymond is Lee Raymond. He has his style. I am Rex Tillerson, and I have my style.

Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing.

It's a great responsibility playing a real-life character because the person has reached a certain position after undergoing a lot of things.

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

'In-between' is sort of - an animator does the key poses. He'll do extremes, you know, like a character reaching out for a glass of water and then another one of him drinking. And the in-betweener has to do all the drawings that goes between those two. You know it could be 12, 23 whatever in-betweens.

What you do, what you say, how you react to critical situations defines not just the moment, but it defines and shapes you.

I think it's great to see that there is such a connection to film music and the way people react or connect to a character or scene.

A script narration is like watching a film, and I react to it like an audience with my own instinct. After that, I look for what is my character, what will I bring to the table in that role, how challenging will it be.

When you consider that you're a character that doesn't speak, but you've still got to react to the other actors, you've got to make a noise of some kind.

No matter what the character is, I just say to myself 'If I, Melissa George, was in that situation, how would I react?' and once you do that you can just go for it, and hopefully the performance comes through.

A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.

With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.

When something terrible happens, how you react determines who you are from then on.

Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.

I've never really been a character on TV. I think, if possible, you want to portray yourself. If you're in a situation where you're supposed to react, you need to react.

The way you react to each challenge forms who you become.

Any team can fall down but it's about how they react to defeat that matters.

Most actors work on a scene, I try to find out who the character is. So when a scene or a moment comes, I react the way she would react.

When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.

I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.

Feeling and reacting has more impact than just trying to emote what your character's saying.

In 'Road,' my character is linear and uni-dimensional. It was more of a reacting character. I am a foil to the other characters in the film. It is the most normal character in the most abnormal, extraordinary film.

Tanveer is one character which people love to hate. I am overwhelmed by the reaction my character has garnered across various platforms, which gives me an assurance that my efforts have paid off.