Quotes About Character

The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.

I'm the same person. I don't put on a face. I'm the same guy every time you see me.

I think that there's something really special about doing a series. You get inside the skin of that character 'cause it's such a long time.

I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.

There is of course a dark side to panto because there are always baddies and you can't have a baddie without a dark side. But most of the time the baddies become good.

In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

I didn't elect [Barack] Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time.

We all know people for that length of time and people change. They mature. There is a certain expectation that a fictional character does not change. But you can't go back and play him the same way.

I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.

Spartan is about this elite unit of the armed forces named the Delta Force. I play a protege of Val Kilmer's character, and he kind of gives me a hard time.

It took me five years on Lyndon Johnson, ten years on the Kennedys, six years on the Roosevelts. Inevitably, you get shaped by the people that you're thinking about during that period of time.

Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.

Can I, just one time, play the good guy?

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.

By the time I'm out of makeup, I'm ready to act.

Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.

I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.

If you're making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character.

I watched some of Lost series. And I realized that the character they wanted me to play didn't really come in for a long time. It would have just been the wrong thing for me to do.

You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice things about you.

The more you spend time with a character, the more you see different nuances of that character.

I simply channeled a character, this time I allowed the character to inhabit me.

Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.