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.
I actually really like Christopher Walken. I find him a really interesting actor. He's such a character that I love everything he's in.
I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!
I thought, 'I loved Batman, I loved Spider-Man, I love all these characters, but Catwoman is really different from any other one.'
People love to talk about how the '70s are the only time they made movies about characters, and adult movies, and complicated people. But in the '80s, they got away with some of those too.
A film that I love is 'Deliverance' from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters - the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist - and by the end, it's all turned upside down. I love that.
I love the idea of playing a character that didn't over think everything. He knows what's in front of him and he has an ability to just say whatever he felt.
I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive.
I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.
I definitely could not write a character that was cruel or unconcerned with animal welfare. For me, not just as a writer but for the person I am, I love animals.
I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.
Even your sweetest character has claws, no matter how well they may be retracted and hidden (hidden even from herself).
There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
