I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.
I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.
In my life, water has had the character of punctuation.
Believe in your character. Animate (or write) with sincerity.
Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart!
You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.
I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors.
I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.
I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.
If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.
To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work.
You've got to internalize the character. You've got to learn the words. These are separate things, but they work together.
Sometimes in Brazil, I work harder to make characters different and believable and to overcome the persona I have.
There's a tavern by the docks. He's there most evenings." "Then I'll talk to him tonight," Halt said. "You can try. But he's a hard case, Halt. I'm not sure you'll get anything out of him. He's not interested in money. I tried that." "Well, perhaps h...
Well anything thats interesting in a film, or in a character (all your passion, your sex, your anger, your rage, all that) comes from that part of you that you want to hide and push away, and you want to deny all those things most. So if you can sort...
Sam Spade: If you kill me, how are you going get the bird? And if I know you can't afford to kill me, how are you going to scare me into giving it to you? Kasper Gutman: Well, sir, there are other means of persuasion besides killing and threatening t...
Jules: Look, just because I don't be givin' no man a foot massage don't make it right for Marsellus to throw Antwone into a glass motherfuckin' house, fuckin' up the way the nigger talks. Motherfucker do that shit to me, he better paralyze my ass, 'c...
