I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.
You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their various relationships.
The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.
I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.
When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of you when you do another character.
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.
People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.
Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.
No person and no character is beyond redemption, ultimately. That's the great thing about playing a character that has kind of a dark side; there's room to explore the opposite.
The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.
Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.
In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.
Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you like in every character. Maybe they coincide.
There were episodes where I would wear seven or eight outfits. It took a lot of time to get those together. What the character wears is very essential to how I create the character.
My action follows my characters. If a character is a cop, you cannot be posing all the time, you cannot fly off the roof because it doesn't make any sense - it's not practical.
How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.
It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.
