I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.
There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.
I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in the heart. I want to be able to get people to cry or make people angry or sad.
I love the idea that somebody is going to compare me to my character or think that I am like my character when they see me. I feel like that is a role that I am willing to fulfill.
One character I always thought I could play is the Thing from 'Fantastic Four.' Another character I've always loved as a fan is Colossus. If there was a way to make that happen that worked, I would love to be Colossus.
I was worried for a while that it was some sort of reflection of me that all I seemed to be getting were these characters that were a tad bit loony. But I love it. Those are the most fun characters to play!
Well, honestly, the films I personally like to go see are smaller, more character-driven pieces, so that's why the movies I've made have been smaller, more character-driven movies.
'True Blood' differs from 'Six Feet Under' in that there are way more characters and plot-lines, but fundamentally it's still about the characters and their emotions.
I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
Well, you know, what's better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved. Characters are incidental.
A person’s reputation is like a glass panel that remains protected till it remains fitted in the strong and durable frame of the good character.
Achievers are Believers in Commitments and Dreams. But, the great achievers believe in their own and others' good CHARACTER too.
In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and it's up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.
I wasn't terribly aware of Catwoman. She was a DC comics character and as a kid, I wasn't terribly fond of the DC comics characters. I was a Marvel boy.
I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.
Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart.
And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.
All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.
