Assuming Quote by Aesop

I have a lot of people in my life who are truly ridiculous characters, and they're very, very funny people, but they don't really…

— Emile Hirsch

Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character…

— Edmund Burke

The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.

— James Marsden

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

— Giacomo Leopardi

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

— Antonio Banderas

Your character is always right. No real person thinks they're being stupid or misguided or bigoted or evil or just plain wrong - so…

— Tana French

Every character, if fleshed out properly, is being taken seriously.

— Varun Sharma

I think I am generally prone to exaggerating characters, taking them to a ridiculous extent. But you do also meet those people in real…

— Julia Davis

Even if the character is something that seems ridiculous on paper, there's a human element to everything. Otherwise, we don't connect with it.

— Cody Rhodes

I say characters who are strong and wrong just have an assuredness about them that you can't even wrap your head around, you can't…

— Ego Nwodim

When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great, 'cause you're not pretending to make up…

— Michael Madsen

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of…

— Joel Coen