When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.
You're only reduced to a cliche if you don't humanize a character.
Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.
One of my favorite things to do is formulate powers for a character, then come up with their corresponding weaknesses and liabilities. And I delight in world-building: melding the supernatural with the natural, then tweaking and polishing until it feels organic.
Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool.
If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.
Habits change into character.
To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it.
But my main thing that I would love to see as a fan of 'Glee,' like I said, is to really get into the character and who they are and what they do outside of school. I think that that's interesting. And then of course the themed stuff and the album episodes are all really cool too.
As an actor, it's my job to prepare myself for a role. If the character is realistic, one can't go wrong.
As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.
That's sort of what I like about this character is that he's not the good guy, he's not truly the bad guy.
Here's the bottom line: I can't play someone if I can't figure out what he cares about. Everybody cares about something, even a rough character. It defines where we step in life. As soon as you find out what somebody cares about, then it all gets real.
I personally like to talk to people when I'm not doing a scene, still acting as if I'm in Gotham when I'm on set because I don't really like to break character, since I sometimes get distracted. I may get distracted when I'm talking to people and having fun; then I have to check myself.
It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible.
The beauty of the original monster movies is that you were able to relate to every single character, or even to treat their monstrosity as an emotional metaphor.
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character.
Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.
I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.
I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.
My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.
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.
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.
Plot and character are virtually the same thing.
Rarely do I try to pull a creature out of life and make it a character.
I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before.
The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.
It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn't know I was doing it.
The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
