I always play outsiders. I think I'm carrying a lot of…

I play outsiders. That's just the way it's gone for me, and I think that's fantastic. I like it because I've always been interested…

— Silas Weir Mitchell

Some characters need to be more performance-orientated; some, you have to be still.

— Laurence Fishburne

I've been lucky to play characters that are really broad.

— Anton Yelchin

I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.

— Katey Sagal

I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day,…

— Peter Dinklage

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

Even while I'm really interested in playing female characters that are varied and interesting and dynamic, I'm not of the mind that you always…

— Tessa Thompson

If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.

— Norman MacCaig

Every actor, I don't care what they say, their roles are a lot more interesting than we are, and at the end of the…

— Moon Bloodgood

I normally play very serious characters.

— Kylie Bunbury

You have to play your characters, not like them.

— John Malkovich

In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level,…

— Shawn Ryan

I just thought that if you are going to do a one-woman show you need to come with it, you know? Don't just stand…

— Kim Wayans

If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over…

— Angela Kinsey

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and…

— Jordana Brewster