I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.
You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their various relationships.
My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.
I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.
When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of you when you do another character.
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.
People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.
Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.
No person and no character is beyond redemption, ultimately. That's the great thing about playing a character that has kind of a dark side; there's room to explore the opposite.
The thing I respond to the most is just great writing, interesting characters. I like to think that there is something fun about playing a character that has a lot of authority in her own life.
The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
I'll play a happy character, but most characters are driven by a pain or a fear. They are driven by something deep down, and most people are like that in the sense. And so, that's what interests me.
Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.
'The Hunger Games' for me is I love the books so much and the character and the story were incredible. That's kind of the game plan is just do really interesting stories with interesting characters.
Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you like in every character. Maybe they coincide.
There were episodes where I would wear seven or eight outfits. It took a lot of time to get those together. What the character wears is very essential to how I create the character.
My action follows my characters. If a character is a cop, you cannot be posing all the time, you cannot fly off the roof because it doesn't make any sense - it's not practical.
