The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?
As the caterpillar undergoes transformation and emerges as a butterfly; likewise, character undergoes transformation through experiences, aspirations and beliefs. How will you emerge?
I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.
If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.
I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.
There is always one person on the set who has a lot of anxiety, an actor who is really intense and has to stay in character and holds himself away from the rest of us.
Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.
Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either.
To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.
'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within that context.
There's no particular role that comes to mind that I'd like to take on, but for me, it's about playing interesting characters and not just two-dimensional ones.
I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.
I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10.
You want people - I want people to relate to me as a character. I want them to go, 'That could have been me,' or, 'I know someone like that.'
In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part.
I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world.
It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.
Ugly Betty' has definitely helped me cope with issues I would have never been able to cope with if I wasn't a part of a show that has such unique characters.
If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man’s character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.
Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?
They wanted Bridgette to be this extremely enigmatic character. Im about the least enigmatic person on the planet, so I just thought what I did on the show was boring.
