Quotes About Character

Nobody can ever describe how much you explore a character on a Peter Berg movie until you're doing it.

I'd like to play a larger-than-life character done straight, like Clouseau. To move away from Dick Emery and towards Peter Sellers.

You can draw the character out of pets, and you can make them your friends, but they are animals, and they have to be allowed to live the lives of animals.

The me you see on stage is largely a construct, based on me at my worst, my most annoying, my most petty, and my most patronizing.

I have two little boys, and I want them to feel like this is the nation that I know. That this is the nation that isn't petty.

In the Broadway world, I've always wanted to play Valjean in 'Les Mis', since I've already played Gavroche. I'd also like to play the Phantom of the Opera, but I haven't really thought about any film characters. You've got to have a whole lot of training for the Phantom role, vocally.

I haven't experienced college life. It's the phase that my character in 'Raanjhana' is set in. But it isn't that bad, either. I have nearly 30 films behind me and a National Award to boot.

And I think Americans are phenomenal people.

Stipe is a phenomenal champ as far as like he's a good guy, if you want to point your kids in the right direction, 'Hey, look at this guy, he's a good person.'

ABC's Lost' consumes me. Everything about it is phenomenal.

It is interesting because even if you are great, and phenomenal, and talented, if you aren't easy to work with, no one is going to want to work with you. That's just the way it is.

I doubt that I could create a character I loathed simply because when a character takes life, it is impossible not to be a little amazed by the phenomenon, and to find that the amazement has something of the quality of delight.

True Dare Kiss' is a gothic drama about a highly dysfunctional Mancunian family who, after 20 years, reconvene for the funeral of their father. I wanted to play Phil because I really liked the character, and there is an element of mystery about her - which I can't reveal.

You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.

Character actors like Philip Seymour Hoffman and James Gandolfini have found themselves getting more and more leading roles because they are permitted to behave onscreen in ways that George Clooney and Matt Damon never could.

I'm really enjoying the character now, but I don't want to just be Philip Marlowe. I wouldn't mind playing him every couple of years, perhaps, as a kind of open franchise - you know?

You can call me whatever. Philly Cheese. Bubble Cheese. Whatever.

Philly guys have a different toughness from anybody you've probably ever met. That's what I hang my hat on.

You can't be too concerned with the philosophical meanings of the character and how it will affect everything else.

My philosophy is if you're a man at night, you gotta be a man in the morning.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.

He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.

I'm just happy I'm not a phony.