In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.
We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing.
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.
Character is ethics in action.
[Peter Norman] was a man of principle and pride, had a strong moral character.
I think I technically learned some things, hopefully. But I go to the movies for characters and story and a berserk vision.
I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.
A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism.
I love, first of all, reading and discovering what the common perception is and then trying to figure out. . . well, how does your life cross over into that character, or what's an angle on this that might challenge the status quo? It's just a great journey as well as an education. You're constantly being educated - it's like I'm back at school and making up for lost time.
Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing
Some celebrities, it's interesting, because they're fantastic playing a character when somebody is writing the lines for them, and they're amazing actors, but they're not as comfortable on television in front of a live audience and just having a conversation and being themselves.
It's nice to have someone write a couture character for you.
At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.
I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.
The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that moment. That's when you know you've been succeeded at what you've worked very hard to accomplish in your profession. Those are the truly thrilling moments.
Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film.
No matter what the characters you play, you have to find the differences in them, especially when you are doing a political movie.
I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.
