I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person.
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
I didn't realise my upbringing was unusual until my teens. As the child of two actors, I presumed that visiting film sets and being surrounded by colourful characters was normal.
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.
It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category.
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do, or thrown out.
I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was... my favorite book as a little girl, and the Silvan Elves were my favorite characters in the book.
There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly.
I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.
I mean, I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet, and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.
I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
It is with words that my heart sings, with the substance of integrity my character soars and without regret I look back smiling ~bns
You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.
It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.
Some of my favourite record and album covers and stuff have all been the singer, and they create a character, and they dress up a little bit.
Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.
But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do.
Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.
There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.
