Quotes About Character

I'm a lot of things but not a liar or a phony, even when I know it's in my best interest to be.

I need a little more 'Jersey Shore' in me, I guess. It's just not who I am. It would almost be phony at this point.

It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I did the characters I wanted to do.

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

I try and photograph people as they are. I do not want to hide anything. I want to bring across a personality, a humanity. It is not a case of model A or model B against a white background. I am interested in the person.

You don't necessarily get the background of a character every time, So, you have to create it mentally and write about it. This is something I learnt from Geetanjali Kulkarni with whom I worked in 'Photograph.'

All I've wanted to be is someone people look up to. It's funny - everyone says I'm controversial. I've never worked out what it is about me that's controversial. I've never had a DUI; I've never been in a brawl; you've never seen photos of me walking out of clubs at 5 A.M.

I feel like people see me as this girl next door, and that comes across in my photos.

Every character is so different, if you put the photos next to each other, you see how different I looked and how different I tried to be. And that's what I really enjoyed, that I could really be a different character every time.

For me, physical beauty is never the reason for attraction to anyone.

She may be called 'Grace the Face' for her physical beauty, but Grace Meigher is as beautiful on the inside as the outside.

Beauty is not just physical.

I'm lucky to play Elektra. So far, it's the most exciting part I've ever had to play. I've done the physicality a bit before, and I enjoy it.

In a modelling shoot you are trying to play a character, a role. There are models who are dead, who have no expression whatever. I think you need to use your physicality, your sense of humour and your emotion when you model.

You can't write a character more brilliant than yourself. It's just not physically possible.

As an actor, you gain weight, you lose weight, you change your hair color, and you make changes physically and emotionally to be able to understand the character.

If you go for an audition, you have a character description, and for the women, it's always about being beautiful, sexy. And for the men it's more about the character than how he appears physically. That annoys me.

Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

I am used to doing dramatic work, but its fun to grab a gun, and go running around, getting beat-up. Its fun to do the action stuff, because it is really physical. There is nothing like getting into a character by getting beaten up physically.

I was never built to play the hero. Physically or emotionally... And they're not as rewarding to play. At least for me.

Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has.

People who are against me attack me personally. They attack the way I look physically, they attack the way I dress, they attack everything but what I say.

Towards the end of 'Dark Shadows,' the sets are cracking and bleeding, but so is Angelique. The fact that she breaks apart physically as well as mentally lends an added dimension, and I just loved playing that.