Characters Quotes · Page 42

I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.

— Christian Bale

I really respond to human scripts, scripts that are raw and real and risky. I love playing scary characters - not horror…

— Shailene Woodley

“Characters are not what they first appear, they are layers upon layers and that's the interesting bit.”

— Brenda H. Sedgwick

I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that,…

— Melanie Laurent

I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

— Karin Slaughter

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's…

— Jackie Chan

All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever…

— Alexander Skarsgard

As actors, we are always playing other characters. It's so exhausting and time consuming to figure them out, so when you get…

— Alia Bhatt

I think I gravitate towards characters who are slight outsiders. It's fun to play a character that wants so badly to be…

— Zach Woods

I absolutely love my job. I feel so privileged: I get to travel the world, I get to witness history... and I'm…

— Clarissa Ward

CCH Pounder taught me one thing. She said, 'Characters are like putting on a coat. You put the coat on while you…

— Jamie Foxx

I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young…

— Margaret Mahy

I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what…

— Stephen Graham

You should be watching 'Red Band Society' because it's a show that inspires us to live. I feel like you'll get connected…

— Nolan Sotillo

That's one of the things I really respect and admire about 'Doctor Who', is that they're always thinking out of the box…

— Sacha Dhawan

One of my favourite films is called 'Lacombe Lucien,' directed by Louis Malle. The lead character in that film, like the lead…

— Joe Cornish

My characters in both 'Pyaar Ka Punchnama' films were so relatable that every other guy connects with me.

— Kartik Aaryan

I've never been able to reuse characters, I've often wanted to. I've never been able to get people to cooperate. I can't…

— George A. Romero

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

— Alphonse Karr

I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape…

— Willem Dafoe

I'm always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. That's how I roll.

— Ariel Winter

I think that the best characters are the ones who both manage to be attractive and repulsive at the same time.

— Nicolas Cage

I'm very, very leery of nonfiction books where they change timeframes and use - what do they call those things? - composite…

— Geraldine Brooks

I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should…

— Anne Enright

The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it…

— Stewart O'Nan

I love to be a vessel through which characters can come through. And if I can move an audience with my work,…

— Rutina Wesley

The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.

— Javier Bardem

The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their…

— James Garner

The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are…

— Sara Zarr

The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers…

— Frances O'Connor

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what…

— Jackie Collins

I mean, he's one of the greatest characters I've gotten to play over my career, so there's a little bit of me…

— Dante Basco

I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.

— Moira Kelly

I never, never lend any of my own clothes for parts any more because you lose your clothes; they become the characters'…

— Hannah Murray

Most of the characters I'm drawn to, as an actor, are ones that are quite intensely lonely and a bit lost and…

— Colin Morgan

I feel like a lot of characters on TV don't have the time to tell that many aspects of a character's story…

— Italia Ricci

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's…

— Edward Norton

TV has gone back to basics, relating to middle class family with real characters, less make-up and simple shots. I feel as…

— Mona Singh

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.

— Harold Ramis

People still recall my show 'Philips Top 10' with Pankaj Kapoor. Those characters were lovable.

— Satish Kaushik