Behavior Quote by Cillian Murphy

That's one of those things that will really hurt me personally, if I label a character or think about what it might do if…

— Luke Wilson

You don't want to have a character say what's bothering him; you want to define characters by action.

— Christopher Priest

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

— Chadwick Boseman

I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived…

— Damian Lewis

Playing dysfunctional characters or crazy characters is only fun if they're well written. So I have been lucky enough to be asked to play…

— Gaby Hoffmann

I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play.

— Steve Buscemi

I'm affected by the characters I play, and sometimes they're hard to live with.

— Marion Cotillard

When I'm [playing] a character, I can look at it and know it's not me and not be concerned with how it looks.

— Nick Jonas

The protagonists that I've played tend to be people who make trouble. Or even if they don't make it, they certainly disrupt things. It's…

— James Spader

A person who suffers from a character disorder frequently has significant behavioral or emotional problems that will almost certainly spell disaster for any marital…

— Neil Clark Warren

Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

There's this attitude that you have to love your characters, and I think that's a nice trick if you have trouble identifying with bad…

— Ashley Zukerman