Quotes About Character

The only aspect I'd probably change in some of my films is the death of the heroine. I wish I'd kept some of them alive.

Whether glam or deglam, performance is what everyone wants in a heroine.

On OTT, it's not about her or heroine, every single character is powerful and a hero, heroine in their own space.

In most of my stories, I give a lot of importance to heroines. My heroines are not just glamour dolls.

Heroism is a matter of choice.

It's a deal-breaker for me when a girl can't handle herself with class or acts different when you're not around me and things like that.

Allison Janney, I'm such a big fan of. Especially the way she conducts herself on a personal level, it's so beautiful. She's this fun, gracious person.

Not to harp on too much about Ma, but it's a misconception that she is formidable. She calls herself a patsy.

I like nothing more than a character sacrificing himself or herself for the sake of others. That's drama at its finest for me.

At the end of the day, I write characters that I want to play, because I just think, 'Hey, maybe one day it'll get made.'

Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.

How often does one get to have a 20-year hiatus of a character and then come back as an adult?

I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.

I'm an actress. You can hide behind your character when you're acting - you're not being yourself.

I believe I am a character actor who likes to hide behind my characters.

I'm not a natural leader. If you see me in a room, I'm the guy standing in a corner hiding. I'm not an alpha male.

All my work's been disguise, really: hiding behind the character.

If you're going to become a better person, do it in high school.

I went to drama school so I had quite a regimented classical training, regimented process of analyzing a script. I'll go through the whole script and highlight everything my character says about me, and in another color I'll highlight what other characters say about me, and I'll highlight all the things I say about other characters.

Everybody knows that Steph Curry changed the game. He's such a great athlete, but that's all we see on the TV, on the highlights on social media. I wish we could see what type of people they are more, because that's the leadership to me, that's the inspiration to me.

Because I'm highly empathetic, it's easy for me to put myself in the character's shoes. It's, you know, finding the truth of the moment.

The way that I work as an actress, I always prefer to read the whole story and tell the whole story and feel what the whole story's going to be, the journey for the audience and how it ebbs and flows, the highs and the lows.