character quotes

• “Then I went to Europe and returned to the preparation of the Hannibal character. So I went hiking up into the Alps. I was deeply engaged in weapons training, riding elephants.” (Vin Diesel) [europe/character/weapons/training]
• To me, Ghandi's a really inspiring character because he understood that in the structure of the world he lived in - that untouchability had to end. (Val Kilmer) [character/start]
• I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character. (Ally Sheedy) [think/help/character]
• A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello. (Tim Roth) [character/love]
• There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring. (Tim Roth) [character/willpower/life]
• “I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.” (Tobey Maguire) [character/naive//happiness]
• My diary is a kind of heart-of-darkness story, both (his character) Private Joker's story and my story - of a young man leaving his home and his country and going to meet this very unexpected experience. (Matthew Modine) [character/housing/experience]
• “I was responsible for Brandon Lang, ... That was my job, to be able to make a believable character who you can understand and go through the whole story with.” (Matthew McConaughey) [character]
• “The character I portray was not first on the list. There were others who didn't want it. One (took it), stayed a couple of days and moved on.” (Matthew McConaughey) [character]
• “That's what interested me in the character of him. He sees things differently. He was not as connected to the community. He was a bit of an outsider, not local. It was let's coach football, take baby steps, do what we have to do. He likes to philosophize. He's got opinions on everything. He'll let me know. It's an honor to be stepping into his shoes. What he did was life inspiring things.” (Matthew McConaughey) [character/outsider/take/life]
• “David even has a list of facial expressions. He tells you which one he wants you to use for a specific moment. David never talks about character. He talks about how we're going to get a laugh.” (Anna Faris) [moment/character]
• “Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.” (Thomas Jane) [actors/character/depth/uniqueness]
• “There's a fine line for me between character acting and leading man acting - the best is a combination of the two.” (Thomas Jane) [character/combination]
• “It's important that this character is played real, or straight, the whole way through and not winking at the audience. It was approached from a dramatic side as much as a comedic side.” (Will Ferrell) [character]
• You can hold tight to a character and say, This is mine, or you can just kind of say, Hey, you know what? This is the next generation. (Angela Cartwright) [character/generation]
• “I get to show all that disgusting, gross part of the industry. My character goes through a crazy process, where he thinks he's found part of the American dream, and has to do things that he wouldn't in a regular job. It's very impacting and really raw.” (Wilmer Valderrama) [character/crazy/process]
• Illuminata is a wonderful film. We went to Cannes with that. It's a lovely period piece that you should rent. Christopher Walken's hysterical in it. I have a lovely part-a character actress of the early 1900s. (Aida Turturro) [film/character]
• “I loved the character, but the challenge, to me, became making this character exactly new and modern in exactly the same behavior and language that was already done, ... Because she wanted to be married, she wanted to risk everything to be with this man, and oftentimes, women are so willing to give and give and give and give, and actually receive so little. And this guy comes in once every couple of weeks and has sex with her in a motel room. This is not a guy to steal $400,000 for.” (Anne Heche) [character/character/behavior/language]
• But that's my favorite part is to write a character background. I write everything from what kind of house they grew up into to their whatever their fear in school was, or did they play sports? I write a whole person which is just fun to do anyway as an exercise just for your imagination. (Ashley Scott) [character/fear/school/exercise]
• I kept getting asked to sing places, but I didn't have any material. I didn't want to do some kind of cabaret revue, and I wasn't comfortable talking to the audience. I prefer to have a character in a world set by the conceit of a theater piece. (Bebe Neuwirth) [character]
• “I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.” (Bette Davis) [think/character]
• “If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.” (Catherine Keener) [give/character]
• “I've never played a character where I've had so much fun on the physical end. I don't want to say I like it too much but it's fun having a gun on you and getting to manhandle men.” (Charlotte Ross) [character/start]
• “I would assume most people hate my character. But I'm hoping that I'm the character you love to hate.” (Charlotte Ross) [people/character/character/love]
• I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested. (Charisma Carpenter) [mind/character]
• “I did. A couple of times. Maybe twice before we actually started. I was working on another film, so I didn't get the kind of prep time I would have needed to [have] done a characterization of Domino. Actually Tony said just to make up your own character. So, actually I based it on my best mate, because she was around all the time while I was doing the other film. And I would look at her and go, 'OK, I can keep her in my head.' And then I could do it. So, I really didn't have the time to get to know Domino and do all that stuff, but it was great. She sent me pictures of her and taped interviews and stuff like that. Just so I had an idea of what she thinks with and the stories, her stories. It was really, really helpful. And then I combined that with my best friend and did it that way.” (Keira Knightley) [film/time/character/time]
• “I thought, God, it's a strong person who says, 'Yes, you can take my name and you can do with it what you want,' ... I wanted to create a character who would be able to say that, because I know that I wouldn't.” (Keira Knightley) [god/take/character]
• “I was terrified of taking on such a well-known character - to the point where I didn't want to do it. But my agent persuaded me and I'm very glad she did.” (Keira Knightley) [character/point]
• I used to take my work home with me before I had children. I don't do that now; I do my work and never bring the character home. (Christine Lahti) [take/housing/character/housing]
• “There were episodes where I would wear seven or eight outfits. It took a lot of time to get those together. What the character wears is very essential to how I create the character.” (Donna Mills) [time/character]
• “I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.” (Donna Mills) [more/business/character]

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