It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are…

The challenge is always in portraying characters who've led a very different life from your's as you get to work on the character.

— Ayesha Takia

Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life, his mother…

— Kim Cattrall

I'm portraying out characters, I'm portraying femme characters, characters that are really outside of the box. I never thought I would get that opportunity…

— Nico Santos

For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still…

— Andy Serkis

As an actor, you are used to portraying other characters. You can pick up any mannerism or body language that suits the character. But…

— Joy Mathew

You're in a very nice position as an actor when you're portraying a piece of history that actually happened and portraying characters that actually…

— Jamie Dornan

I use my hair as a tool for portraying characters. When I'm auditioning for a role, when I'm putting myself on tape for something,…

— Camila Mendes

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most…

— Maeve Binchy

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people…

— Maeve Binchy

In general, I'm always interested in characters who have kind of extreme aspects to them, who are in some ways larger than typical people.

— Fred Melamed

Fantasmas' is very empathetic toward everyone who's onscreen. The characters are the kind of people you bump into that you might never see again…

— Julio Torres

I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to…

— Richard Price

I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people…

— Alexa Vega

I've always kind of gravitated toward characters who are a bit distant from the narrator or the point-of-view characters, so that's kind of important…

— Noelle Stevenson

If you look at the rest of my stuff, I always play characters that kind of don't look like me, 'cause I love transforming…

— Victor Rasuk