I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.
All of the trickster, rascal characters that I write have the voice I aspire to. In real life, you can't be that obnoxious and get away with it.
To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.
Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they're thinking about in their life and enjoying a show or a movie.
Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.
To me, it's really not about how I look - it's about who I can be. It is my job to bring the character to life and my duty to fit into the jigsaw in that story.
If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters.
I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.
My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.
Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.
I like to do on screen what I'm not in life. In life, I'm much more weak and insecure, and so then you know I like to play characters that are stronger than me.
Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.
I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.
I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.
I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.
I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.
I love doing heightened reality stuff, and having fun with the characters I play, especially in a kind of darker way, which I don't get to do in 'Primeval' at all.
I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.
My very favorite costumed character I've played would be Abe Sapien from the 'Hell Boy' movies. I love this guy.
