But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn't realize he would move in with quite such a bang.
I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.
I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.
I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes.
Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.'
My role is to just tell the highest degree of truth with every character and every story. From there, I have no clue whatsoever how things are going to turn out.
Usually when people see me, they see me as more of the soft-spoken one rather than being the witty, smart-tongued character.
It's much easier to come back as a recurring character. Because you already know his traits and who he is and what he's about.
Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
There's such an emphasis on having a character be likable. I don't think it would be helpful if I worried about that. I mean, not everyone's likable.
If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.
It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.
I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer.
When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.
An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.
Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
