I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.
People don't usually compliment your character.
I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie you're watching, they have these toned arms and muscles.
Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.
I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation.
The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.
I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.
Every time you say yes to a film there's a certain percentage of your yes that has to do with the director, a certain percentage to do with the story, a certain percentage with the character, the location, etc.
If you're playing a character that someone doesn't like, that's okay, but if you're voicing your own opinions, they actually don't like you!
I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.
As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.
In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.
What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance.
To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer... that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from.
I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist.
You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.
I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.
The most irritating movie character for me was that cradle-to-grave commie, Mary Poppins.
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character.
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.
In order for a narrative to work, the primary character should have a concrete desire - a need that drives her story - and the story's writer should make this goal known to the reader pretty early in the narrative.
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
I'm troubled by how much I like Rowan Williams. I think it reveals character flaws in myself that I'd rather not think about. The softly spoken soon-to-be-former Archbishop of Canterbury is my secret crush, my weird pash, and my guilty pleasure.
I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.
Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
The most I could hope for is to come and try and develop a character who is interesting, who is interesting to me, who is interesting to fans and who could contribute to the storytelling that is 'Law & Order: SVU.'
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.
I learned that the acting I really like is when the actors did a lot of bringing themselves, and where they're at at the moment, to the character.
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
