Quotes About Character

Naan' performed admirably, and the people have since associated me with that character. I am in no hurry to change that image.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film.

I am a professional actor, and I am very careful about being sincere to the characters I play.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

With shows like 'The X-Files' or 'Eerie, Indiana' - even though they would have comedic moments, even though they would have character moments - there was a sincerity about magic.

The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.

I try to bring all my sincerity to the character I play. That way, I am dedicated.

Going through 'The Partridge Family,' I looked up to people like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and all those guys. But as an actor playing a part, I had to sing what was right for the character and the show.

If the wrong people show their true colors only after reaching our highest offices, Singapore is finished.

I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'

'OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.

I have a very clear understanding of what my voice is. It's like a B voice. It hovers around B-minus, B-plus. I have great friends who are wonderful singers, and I know I'll never be able to do that. But singing through a character is something I can do.

It was fun playing a horrible, snotty kid in 'Harry Potter', and then playing Prince Charming where I was also singing and playing guitar, and then playing a completely different character.

Every single film I've done, it's about the character.

I want to be me, and the Arizona Cardinals know what they are getting. They are not getting a kid that is going to say stupid things and piss people off unnecessarily. They are going to get a kid that everyone knows who they are getting every single day I walk into the building.

Ultimately we all only have our reputation, and it is nothing more than a series of small decisions you make every single day.

The challenge is making sure that every single moment is honest, no matter what. It's doing Eric Carter justice. Not trying to fill Jack Bauer's shoes. Not trying to step into Kiefer's legacy.

I think Bad News Barrett was just having a laugh every single night.

So a lot of me is still a little kid, and I think that kind of helps alter my sense of reality - it makes me able to just become Belle every single night.

I love theater, and I love that you have to be so intensely in the character and you have to hit that place every single night. It's just really good training. It was just a very good way of falling in love with my craft.

I believe that every single person attached to a film is a character and nothing more. I don't categorize them as hero, heroine, etc.

Gee, I wish that life were so black and white that you can't think of a single person who, you know, a good person who has done bad things.

Paul Giamatti is truly one of my biggest inspirations, and even more so now that I've gotten to work with him. Every single thing he does, he completely transforms into it. When I watch a film with Paul in it, I'm not like, 'Oh, there's Paul.' I'm completely into whatever character he's in, and I'm not thinking about him as an actor.