As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.
Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.
I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.
Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.
I've had the opportunity to do a wide range of stuff, a lot of different characters and they've all had their own kind of thing.
You're trying to bring an emotional and psychological reality to a character that's on the page and make them three-dimensional.
I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.
I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.
Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.
Accents are very easy for me. With me, it's clothing and makeup and hair and all that stuff that inform how the character moves and feels.
One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually.
I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the building of characters.
It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing.
I've actually always been interested in following a character more long term, but the only place to really do that as an actor is on a TV series.
I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial.
I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.
I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
