Quotes About Character

I have played bad-guy roles, but they were significant to the story.

We, as individuals, are defined by the choices we make. Some of our decisions can have very significant consequences and totally change the courses of our lives.

I consciously think about the ethnicity of every character that I create and cast. But one thing that is equally important is quality representation. It's not enough to put an African-American in there, a female in there, a gay character in there: How significant is their contribution? Can they drive the story?

Frankly, I hadn't expected my role in 'Avvai Shanmughi' to be so significant.

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

I always give weightage to performance more than the length of my character. That has always been my criteria for signing a film.

It's kind of interesting when you sign on to a show because you're basically signing on to play a character because you only really see the first episode of the show.

I primarily look at how a role is laid out by the director. I take into consideration my co-stars, before signing a role.

To me what's most important when I'm signing a project is the character that I'm going to portray and whether it gives the opportunity to show different facets of my craft.

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

Whether someone signs something is not what's important. It's what they do and how they do it that matters.

One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

Don't ever silence your morality to be a part of anything.

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies.

Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up.

I love some films with very silent characters, people who don't speak, but I wouldn't be able to do that.

I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn.

It's Toby Jones playing Alfred Hitchcock, not Alfred Hitchcock. We all felt that his silhouette was crucial, so his nose and lips were crucial as well. We had to build it out a bit to get the silhouette. But, with my nose being so small within the proportion of my face, the first nose was too big. I felt like a nose on parade.

Comedy and silliness has a place in wrestling, but there's still gotta be some level of believability.

I don't even mind playing a bimbo or a silly girl, as long as it isn't stereotyped and there's a reason for that character to be part of the story.

I know it sounds silly, but in auditions for film or TV, the words aren't as important - you need to get into the character and have the gist of the scene. But in theater, if you don't do it word for word, then you throw off your scene partner.

Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

The more comedic roles come easier to me though because I see myself as a silly, easy-going person.