Character Quote by Eliza Coupe

I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

— Mandy Patinkin

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I think I'm a part of all the characters I play, definitely at different times in my life. In real life, I'm kind of…

— Sprague Grayden

I suppose I'm what you'd called a character actress, so, often, my characters are quite extreme.

— Rachael Stirling

I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.

— Christian Bale

I'm not playing a character. What I'm doing though is taking the worst, most shameful, peculiar, or troubling aspects of my personality. So there…

— Simon Amstell

I have always played the intense, brooding characters but I am not like that in real life.

— Nikitin Dheer

I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their…

— David O. Russell

I always tend to like the characters that I play. I'm convinced that I am this person and I'm OK with whatever they do.

— Mark Wahlberg

I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

— Jacki Weaver

I like characters that do big things boldly and are driven by intensely personal feelings.

— Mark Pellegrino

I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people…

— Art Alexakis