Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.
Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word.
I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.
It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.
It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.
I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.
I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
The whole sex-symbol thing is part of what I do as an actress. It's a kind of character I play. It's part of me, but not the whole me.
To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.
If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.
All the characters I've ever played have really had nothing to do with looks. There's a lot of things that are a lot more interesting to me to play than that.
For a long-running TV show, you're looking for a character who is interesting and vibrant and you can imagine going into all kinds of different areas.
I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.
He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.
When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.
It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view.
I couldn't bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.
The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.
