Quotes About Character

Rehearsals are set up so that you find out all the nuances about your character. You never want to beat yourself up. It's about finding the right direction, and most of the time, the right direction is not what you think is the right direction. That's why the director's there: to guide you there.

When you rehearse a play, you spend four weeks with one goal in mind - to wean the actor away from you. You want the actor to become completely independent and to understand all the emotional and psychological moves within the character.

I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting.

In theatre, you rehearse for months and then perform. That way, you're totally in-sync with your character, the other characters, and the story.

I'm really not livable with when I'm rehearsing because I'm living the character.

It was the most pleasurable thing I've ever done, playing this character, and I just remember feeling so at home and so - I don't know, I was just happy - and it just wasn't ever work! It was like a sandbox for me, and I would crack myself up rehearsing.

The thing that really makes me happy is the real work and rehearsing and creating the character and the process of making the movie. Hollywood's not real.

I definitely feel, as a theatre actor, that when you're rehearsing in your street clothes in a rehearsal room, it can be a little hard to find the character.

Roman Reigns never asked me for my help, that's not who he is.

When you allow an animator to focus on a portion of the film and really understand the arc of the scene, what's happening with the characters, they can make choices all along the way that reinforce the main points of the scene. They really get to know what's happening.

I am an actor, and I would like to reinvent myself through every character that I portray.

My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed; to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you; to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people.

I think the key to the longevity is being able to reinvent yourself and to adopt and incorporate different things into your character.

I look to challenge myself with a character that's not like myself or anything I've done before, but I certainly don't reject roles based on how often I've done them.

If I played a vamp I would be rejected by the audience outright.

You get rejection throughout your life and that shapes you eventually to what you become.

I think every opportunity, every disappointment, every rejection, every accolade... everything has contributed in shaping my character and my choices and who I have become.

Your job as an actor, I guess, is just to make people relate to the character.

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

When a family film is done well, there's a character that every member of the audience can relate to. I want to be one of those guys.

I think if you're too embroiled in the need to relate too closely to the character, then you start to judge the character for the audience rather than to present it to the audience for their enjoyment and them to mull over the questions that the characters present.

There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.

It's really interesting that, in 'The Avengers,' the character that people relate to is The Hulk, and I think the reason why they relate to The Hulk is because he's fragile and human and faulty.

I want kids to live through this character I've created. I want them to say that they are Kevin Abstract because they relate to it that much.