I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.
If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel.
Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character.
Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.
That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.
Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.
Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.
I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.
In TV, you may think your character's one thing for two episodes, and then the third episode it could be something different.
With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people.
I think a lot of drama, nowadays, is character-based and development-based, but 'True Blood' is very plot-oriented.
I used to watch dailies and felt I had to keep on top of the character, but I don't feel that any more.
It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.
I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.
If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?
