Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.
The more limitations you put on a character, often times the better a character you'll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can't simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework.
I try to do as much as possible for every character. Some of them, it is easier to do the research because you have either real examples that you work with, maybe some specific person that inspires you in that case, or the performances from other peo...
Character is habit long continued.
Clothes cover up character.
To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.
Any good actor is a character actor.
There are good characters and bad characters.
To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character.
Eventually, I'd love to be known as a character actor.
Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.
Character matters; leadership descends from character.
I do think I'm a character actor.
Jesse James: [Jesse has given Bob a gun as a gift] You know what John Newman Edwards once wrote about me? He said I didn't trust two men in ten thousand and was even cautious around them. The government's sort of run me ragged. I'm going the long way...
Jesse James: You know I'm real comfortable with your brother. Hell, he's ugly as sin and he smells like a skunk and he's so ignorant he couldn't drive nails in the snow, but he's sort of easy to be around. I can't say the same for you, Bob. Robert Fo...
I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not caught, I become a little bit more of this ugly thing: a liar. Character is always in the making, with each morally valenced action, whether rig...
People show their character by what they laugh at.
Character can be built on daily routine.
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.
My goal has been to be a great character actor.
