Quotes About Character

There's so many different things that you can physically change for a character.

I am fairly physically aware and agile, and I imbue that into the characters I play.

I've never put my hands on a woman, physically, ever.

'Andhadhun' is the most challenging film and character. For playing the role, first and foremost I had to learn how to play the piano and then how to emulate gestures of a blind pianist.

I think Ada in 'The Piano' is the most interior character I've ever had the chance to play, either on the stage or in anything I've done for film or TV.

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

Each time that you're playing a character, it's hard to pick a favorite.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.

I wouldn't say I'm drawn to dark roles, and it's not like I pick and choose.

A leader can't pick and choose when he wants to lead.

First of all, I was a good Christian kid. My mom and dad taught me never to fight. So I never fought. The other kids picked that up right away. They said, 'Oh, he's not going to try to do anything.' They'd push me, shove me, hit me. I'd just stand there and take it.

Some basic things I have picked up from Dad is how to interpret my character correctly, use the camera to my advantage and how not to hurry up with work.

Picking up 'A Gentleman' was pretty easy. It had everything that I like watching in a film. And it has everything that audiences like to see me doing.

Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

You know, I just tend to grow my beard out for 'Parks and Rec.' As an actor it's always easier to shave or cut your hair for a role, but it's hard to put fake hair on or grow hair for a role. When you look at pictures of me, the longer my hair is, the longer my facial hair is, that's just the longer I haven't gotten a job.

I've played some horrid characters in the 70 pictures or so that I've made. But none of the roles degraded my sex. And I've never made a movie I'd be ashamed to have any of my friends or family see.

In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.

Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.

You can be more creative in acting by bringing your character to life and bringing a piece of you that wasn't there before. You could have five different actors play one role, and all five of them would be so different because each person brings a different piece of them into it.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.

I don't believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.