Being Quote by Joel Edgerton

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a…

— Orlando Bloom

I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life.

— Dave Dravecky

I really wanted our male characters to be a lot stronger. We gave them careers, lives.

— Catherine Hardwicke

I like characters who are larger-than-life, whether life-loving women or the artist or guru who grabs everything. But I don't live among people like…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I'm pretty good at fleshing out characters. I like to crawl inside their minds and imaginations and sort of loll about. Sticking to a…

— Gina Ochsner

I am most attracted to characters and stories that I can relate to. The traditional formula of 'larger than life' I never found attractive.

— Abhay Deol

Every masculine hero narrative I could find I wanted to steal for myself and twist to my size.

— Christine and the Queens

I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing…

— Zachary Quinto

In general, I'm always interested in characters who have kind of extreme aspects to them, who are in some ways larger than typical people.

— Fred Melamed

I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.

— Charlize Theron

My personal life is a big part of who my character is.

— Sonya Deville

“A little boy, he can play like he's a fireman or a cop--although fewer and fewer are pretending to be cops, thank God--or a…

— Tom Robbins