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He left it to me to create the character. Sometimes he would have a comment, and it was always right on the mark. Hitchcock worked the same way. (Sockman Ralph W.)
I said, 'Wouldn't it be great if Matt Damon's character fell in love with a girl with a real butt?' They were like, 'Yeah sure, sure - here's your personal trainer.' (Sockman Ralph W.)
Brought the tone, and he brought it hard and fast. He picked up and carried Sunset, which was really a small film, and made this popcorn piece. It was kind of wobbly for a while. God, there were times I was cursing him out, cursing the writers out. I don't like it when it gets shaky like that. (Sockman Ralph W.)
He has an intensity, and a great voice. He's very fearless, and he's got a good body of work in the cinema already. They wanted to make a shift, play with more character. (Sockman Ralph W.)
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I thought. ... I can do anything I want to do now. I'm not beholden to them or anyone. I'm not shackled by some contracted image. So there was a sense of liberation. (Sockman Ralph W.)
This man has a life as a secret agent, ... This man kills people, this man is a widower. This man is sent out on missions to retrieve someone or something -- he could die. (Sockman Ralph W.)
I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays. (Sockman Ralph W.)
I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation. (Sockman Ralph W.)
I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are. (Sockman Ralph W.)
The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is. (Sockman Ralph W.)
When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character. (Sockman Ralph W.)
I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith. (Sockman Ralph W.)
I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me. (Sockman Ralph W.)
I wanted to play a character that had clarity and knew what they wanted; I felt the distilled difference between myself and the character. (Sockman Ralph W.)
I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more. (Sockman Ralph W.)
The next one I'm playing: Valmont, in another remake of Dangerous Liaisons called Cruel Inventions, which is set in the 1990s. You don't get any meaner than Valmont. (Sockman Ralph W.)
It's close-quarter, hand-to-hand combat in the dark. If this guy was a tunnel rat and lived through that and excelled at it, it pretty much (indicated) what kind of character he was. (Sockman Ralph W.)
I think I'd do more of this guy. (Sockman Ralph W.)
I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you. (Sockman Ralph W.)
I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else. (Sockman Ralph W.)
If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it. (Sockman Ralph W.)
I play Bobby Drake, a.k.a. Iceman. The way I see Bobby is that he's basically a normal kid who's grown up with this mutant ability. (Sockman Ralph W.)
I really liked Ged's dark side. He's a young man who is strongheaded, growing up in the middle of nowhere and feels destined for something else. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it. (Sockman Ralph W.)
The character I got to play in Smallville was sort of like a duel character, I think sci-fi stuff just magnifies normal situations; it puts normal people in extreme situations, which I always find interesting. I've been lucky to have characters like that. (Sockman Ralph W.)
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