The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal.
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
I have always liked family-type dramas; I just think the dynamics in families make for some really interesting characters.
It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.
People will fall in love with you due to your character, but they'll stay in love with you due to your attitude
Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.
Remember, it’s called ‘character development’ for a reason – it takes time, patience and understanding to build a fictional person.
My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.
I definitely acknowledge that 'The Matrix' and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it's awesome.
We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's the most challenging part.
I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.
Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.
I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.
I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.
I tend to play every color in the Southern rainbow, and the challenge is to make each character different so I'm not doing any generic 'Southern acting.'
I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.
Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.
My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.
The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early.
I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
