In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.
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.
How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.
It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.
I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.
I like movies about people and movies with characters; that's what I'm drawn to as a person who likes to create these characters within the story, but I like it all, really.
I think successful movies that are based on books are their own thing. I think if you're too faithful, word by word, character trait to character trait, it can hurt the movie.
If the character is really well-rounded, and it's a really strong character, and if the writing is just fantastic, that's the thing that will hook me in, certainly.
Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director's not an idiot, they're going to sign up and do some acting.
I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.
What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.
I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.
The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.
Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above both is character. It is true, of course, that a genius may, on certain lines, do more than a brave and manly fellow who is not a genius; and so, in sports, vast physical stre...
When two men quarrel, the one who yields first displays the nobler character.
