Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.
I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.
A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.
I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.
My character in 'Casa de mi Padre' is an ambitious woman. I had never played that kind of character before.
I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.
All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name in life! The show is such a phenomenon all over the world.
I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.
When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.
And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.
I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.
Perhaps this is what Henry James meant when he talked about the “irresponsibility” of characters. Characters are irresponsible, art is irresponsible when compared to life, because it is first and foremost important that a character be real, and a...
Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
A lie becomes true when one believes it.
In the visible church the true Christians are invisible.
True poverty does not come from God.
