Quotes About Character

Do you know how hard it is to play a character where you're always in heels? Oh, my goodness!

On the 'Revenge' set, even if they're not showing my feet, I'll still wear my heels because it gets me in the feeling of Ashley Davenport.

I've been trying to make it my own way in an industry full of heels walking around in babyface costumes, and that brought out the worst in me.

I'm really excited to bring everything that I had learned from NXT and put that into the character on 'SmackDown Live' and be one of the biggest, if not best heels the company has ever seen.

Mum used to say that when I went out of the house, I represented her. I took that seriously. So I didn't get involved with a lot of things. I held myself in a particular way.

Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

I'm quite sure Shakespeare enjoyed writing Iago much more than he did writing Othello. If you write about someone you love, what the hell are you supposed to say about that person? It's much better to have something between you and your main character that grates.

My very favorite costumed character I've played would be Abe Sapien from the 'Hell Boy' movies. I love this guy.

I don't enjoy putting my characters through hell unless there's a reason. I don't use violence or anything just for shock value. They're always a means to an end.

When I read the script, I was like, Hello, woman in a box. I had to explore that to the end.

Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.

Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.

I don't cry. Well, you know, I think coming from an acting background that's really helped me because I more than anyone know that an actor creates a character.

But to be part of helping create a character and be a part of something from the beginning - the excitement of it - it doesn't get any better.

I feel good in makeup, and it helps create a character.

And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the closest thing to you, it touches you. Some actors like to go into make-up and then put their clothes on, but I like to dress first; that's my routine.

It helps to be more interested in other people than you are in yourself. Inhabiting other characters is what I do.

My heritage has definitely shaped my music and my character in a lot of ways.

Most of us are cut from the same cloth. We all can be a hero if we choose. And it just isn't that hard.

One brave deed makes no hero.

I've never been interested in watching or reading anything because it's the hero's story. I don't feel the need to be inspired by the character or learn a lesson. I feel the need to be engaged by them.

I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge.

My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.

I am not a hero.