Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director's not an idiot, they're going to sign up and do some acting.
I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.
What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.
I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.
The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.
Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above both is character. It is true, of course, that a genius may, on certain lines, do more than a brave and manly fellow who is not a genius; and so, in sports, vast physical stre...
When two men quarrel, the one who yields first displays the nobler character.
Are you a female dog?" "What?" Massie asked. "Why?" "Because you are acting like a real
You are not male or female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
Cale! Have you had a female in here?” Calic laughed carelessly. “Depends on when you're referring to.
There are many amazing female directors that made work in more skewed times, so we should be thankful for the boundaries they pushed through.
The word “future” and females is a dangerous combination.
I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.
Now? I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man not feel so inadequate.
just want to read more books and be a knowledgeable female.
I put everyone in my school on to Nicki Minaj before she blew up. I was obsessed with her and I was like, 'If she's the best female rapper then I've got to be better than her.'
The best part of my job is that we can be making shows like 'Boardwalk', 'Thrones', 'True Blood' but also female-centered comedies like 'Enlightened', 'Veep' and 'Girls'.
Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.
I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be.
