Quotes About Character

I recurred on 'Grey's Anatomy' for three years, and at the same time, I recurred for eight episodes on 'Rescue Me'. And I'd recurred for nine episodes on 'The Practice'. Frankly, the guest star is often the most compelling character.

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.

With any character I do, I do my due diligence with research.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where, I mean not in a bad way, but it was right on the page.

One of the joys about acting is researching.

It's always interesting researching characters and as I get older and the more that I work in this business, I do more and more of it because I realize how important it is.

It's difficult to just let go of a character. Especially after you've been preparing and researching for weeks.

I don't think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real!

I'm not really one who goes telling people things. I'm quite a reserved character and I keep a lot of things to myself. That's my home life as well. I just try to deal with things and, rightly or wrongly, get on with it.

I always tend to think, even in residential projects, about what a space is being asked to do - where is it located, what are the circumstances, where can I attack the problem, so to speak. How can you create a narrative for people moving through it? How can you convey its character?

When good people do bad things, it is sad, but when they reach the point where one can predict that they will do nothing but bad things, a deeper kind of sadness sets in, almost at the level of resignation.

My mum thinks I get my determination and resilience from my dad. I think it comes mostly from her.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

I've tried to shut myself off as much as possible from the hype of 'War Horse,' and just thought, 'OK, I'm going to focus on the character and focus on the story and focus on what I have to do.'

In older Hollywood movies, a character will make an entrance, close a door, light a cigarette, sit down, have a drink. In Jean-Luc's movies, you were doing everything at once, and sometimes you wouldn't shut the door all the way.

When you flip flop your personality and your characters so many times back and forth, people can't trust you. They can't trust a word you say on a promo because last week, they loved you. This week, they're saying, 'Shut up!' And it diminishes your credibility, and when you have credibility with the audience, you're halfway there.

I grew up in a humble family with a shy personality.

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

The Lux girl is every girl as far as I'm concerned. She can be shy, confident, boisterous, elegant, or clumsy.

My first and most loved real novel was 'Little Women.' I identified with the Jo character even though we were opposites. Jo was very strong-minded and brave, and I was shy and kind of a wuss, everyplace but in my own home. I wanted to be Jo. She was my alter ego. I think reading that book gave me courage.

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

There is a shy side to me that evaporates when I play on stage, and I like that. I think it's another facet of my character, and I need to do that.

My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.