Characters Quotes

Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

You know a lot of times wrestlers get too full of themselves. They can't separate themselves from the characters. They get used to the excitement, the energy, the lifestyle and the money and with a lot of these guys, when it stops, they self-destruct.

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.

I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do.

I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story.

I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.

006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.

I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy.

To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work.

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.

No matter what's happening in my life, I can always get lost in the romances of my characters.

Certainly it's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has as many characters as this does, and the piece took on a life of its own to try and shape it. That took all the time we had in editing.

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.

Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.

I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.

I mean when I was working shall we say with Disney, you know they sent me the script for the film Hercules and I had to imagine what all the characters looked like. And to develop those characters, so nothing exists visually when I get the script.

There are a lot of actresses out there who are the girl next door. I relate more to characters who have an edge.

I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.

I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.

Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.

I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I'm a chameleon like that.