I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.
It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.
Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.
I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.
the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.
My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or she is to me.
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.
You establish a technique on how to develop characters. Everyone does it their own way, and that's what makes it fun.
Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behaviors, for some reason, I'm drawn to characters like that.
No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.
It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.
You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.
Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
When you do a movie, you go to the location and get into your costume. It's part of your metamorphosis into your character, and it just made sense to do it.
Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities.
You get the part, sign the contract and start to realize millions of people follow this guy and know more about your character than you do.
I mean, I do believe that when you walk on the stage, or onto the screen, that's your character - not you. So it's an interesting challenge, an interesting line to walk.
