Quotes About Character

I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.

As an actor, you can't just imitate someone. You have to get under her skin.

If you are going to be a character for the long-term you can't just imitate, you have to bring yourself to it.

As a child, I think everybody imitates their favorite cartoon character in some form or another when they're playing.

The closer a part is to you, the harder it is to play. Anything else is just imitation. If I'm playing a Russian countess, I get the hat, the accent, the outrageousness. Easy. Playing a murderess? Perfect.

My height is immaterial; it's my heart and mind which count.

Daily contact with boys who had not been brought up as gently as I worked an immediate and, in some respects, a beneficial change in my character.

I read a script and I know immediately whether that role is for me or not.

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.

Dialogue is one of the easiest ways to get character conflict across immediately in comics.

I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.

The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives, and then from that, I get a lot of ideas of how the film could be made, how it could be told.

I internalise every role that I do and my creative process sees me immerse myself with the setting and the character that I have at hand.

While I'm filming, I'm often immersed in the emotions and situations of the character. But when the filming is over, I'm quick to return to my daily life.

Some parts stay with me for weeks afterward. It's these people that I play. They get under my skin, and I just can't let go of them. I have immersed myself into their lives and into their beings so much that they feel like a part of me.

I fully immersed myself in the character Sun-sim in 'Miss Lee.'

I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.

I bring immediate impact off the court as much as I do on the court.

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

I wish I felt that I acted like Korra in any part of my life. I really carry around 'Be the leaf' in my head. That's not a character, but it's something from the show that's really impacted my daily life.

I like imperfection.

Man, I think mistakes - that's what makes us distinct human beings. Those imperfections.

Imperfections make a character.

Lots of guys have tried to impersonate John Madden and it just doesn't work.