Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Anytime you have an opportunity as an actor to really grow along with your character, I think that's a real gift.
I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.
I am not as confident as the characters I play. I am a bit aloof. I am uncomfortable in social situations.
Courage is the collective strength of heart, mind and soul, but the character plays the key role.
I'm very sassy. I want to show people in my album I'm not like my characters on TV.
With every character, I just bring something that I can make my own.
I'm always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. That's how I roll.
Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.
One of my pet peeves about biblical epics was that the characters' costumes always looked like they're just out of the dry cleaners.
I really believe in the radical viewpoint. And I have always believed that one's politics and the character of his particular work are inseparable.
I spend many hours in conversation with wonderful characters from fantastic books.
When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.
A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.
FAMILY. The ties that bind. The cement that builds character, strength of purpose, mutual respect, values.
Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it’s everything.
Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one's character through reasoning in a circumstance.
I try to create an environment where, when we step onto the set, we're all in character.
