Quotes of: Character-roles Keyword

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.

Aden Young

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.

Benjamin Bratt

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

Bruce Boxleitner

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.

Life

And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

Vincent D'Onofrio

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

Zoe Kazan

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.

Adhir Kalyan

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

Amy Poehler

To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it's comedy or drama - I think timing is important in either. But for me, it's all about having a character to work on.

Hannah Tointon

We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.

Geena Davis

The characters that aren't what they seem to be or women who are stronger than people give them credit for or characters you underestimate, I always think are really interesting because there are so many possibilities with them.

Valorie Curry

you can't hold on and let go to (at the sametime) of you worthless, unhappy, failing relationship

Escaping from the Victim or Volunteer Role in Your Relationship

A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.

In the Gravest Extreme: The Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection

You don't always get to pick the role you're going to play in life, but it's good to play whatever role you got the best way you can.

Boy21

I don't need the money after 11 years on 'Frasier,' and there aren't that many great roles onstage left for somebody my age. I'm more interested in playing those roles than I am in playing bit parts in movies.

John Mahoney

I think it's always hard to find great roles, no matter what age you are. So I always say to people, 'You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to; they're not in the business of finding great ...

Julianne Moore

I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, e...

Madhuri Dixit

Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motiv...

Magnus Scheving

I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.

Mamie Gummer

When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you wouldn't have different artistic styles - but it doesn't follow that art is completely idiosyncratic a...

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

And I wasn’t playing a role – I was trying to be myself. But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I had probably lost that ‘myself’ somewhere between two perfectly performed roles...

Nightmarish Sacrifice