Multifaceted and textured characters are always more intriguing to me. You never really just want to play one note. It becomes a… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters. — J. R. Bourne Copy Share Image
I have done a wide range of characters and getting acknowledged as a comedian is encouraging for me as an actor. — Biju Menon Copy Share Image
If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
“An author who does not support his or her characters does not deserve the support of readers. EVER!” — Johanna Oznowicz Copy Share Image
None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting. — Anna Paquin Copy Share Image
The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters. — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
Whether it's a guy living in an airport like Viktor Navorski in The Terminal, or Anvil in Toronto, or Alfred Hitchcock who's… — Sacha Gervasi Copy Share Image
When I'm creating characters, I just want to create characters that I can relate to, and be as honest about them as… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
I'd be happy to play anyone's girlfriend. I'm happy to be working, ever. It's not an intentional thing to play these messed… — Madeline Zima Copy Share Image
With indies, all they have is their script and it's very important to them. The characters are better drawn, the stories more… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be.… — Kyra Sedgwick Copy Share Image
A lot of action characters are a little bit too serious as well. They take themselves a bit too seriously, which I… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
“When people’s parallel truth collides with their real truth, they may have a hard time in subduing all the fanciful items and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I'm the opposite of someone like David Grossman, who knows how his characters walk, and how they smell. I don't allow myself… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
It's always interesting researching characters and as I get older and the more that I work in this business, I do more… — Max Thieriot Copy Share Image
I don't see why it's such a stretch for distributors, buyers, and studios to put cartoon characters into adult situations on film. — Bill Plympton Copy Share Image
Wherever I go in the world, people all know about Scotland Street and are always asking me about what's going to happen… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters… — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
It's your job to come up with compelling characters who speak to an individual authenticity. If I'm not interested in the characters,… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
If you can play lots of different characters, that's fun. As long as the material is good, that's what the attraction is… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
'Pigeonholed' isn't the right word, because I feel like I've had a very wide range of characters that I've been allowed to… — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
The characters have desperation and it doesn't work out for everyone. Maybe it's not fair because I'm responding to the adaptations that… — Robert Sikoryak Copy Share Image
Some of my characters are drawn from people I know whereas others are an amalgamation of people or one specific person. Sometimes… — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
All of the trickster, rascal characters that I write have the voice I aspire to. In real life, you can't be that… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' -… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
I like to believe that intimate moments between characters don't need to be relegated to independent films. — Colin Trevorrow Copy Share Image
That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension. — Jack Coleman Copy Share Image
It was fun to create characters who had truth to them but were also made up so as not to completely offend! — Zoe Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or… — Laurie Holden Copy Share Image
A lot of Texans go up to New York and stay there forever. If there are any two places with more individual… — Jerry Jeff Walker Copy Share Image
Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure. — Abbie Cornish Copy Share Image
I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access. — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard. — Larry Cohen Copy Share Image
I tend to enjoy roles that I very closely identify with: fringe people and complicated characters, who might even be bad guys,… — Dylan Sprouse Copy Share Image
Any good production team is going to allow an actor to breathe life into the characters - that's why they hired that… — John DiMaggio Copy Share Image
I like strong women. I think a lot of women relate to strong characters, and a cop is still a strong character. — Ally Walker Copy Share Image
I don't know... I don't think you can trust any of Kurt's characters. That's how Mr. Sutter operates: nothing is what it… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
