Character Quote by John Hurt

My naivety is to assume people will think there's compassion and solidarity in wanting to play someone even though we are not them.

— Robert Lepage

Depending on what you believe as a person, there's always redeeming qualities to every character or individual, as spiteful as they might be.

— David Boreanaz

Well, on a personal level, I would never want to take on a character who didn’t have some redeemable qualities. Even the worst of…

— Steve Carell

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

— Chadwick Boseman

I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will…

— Pablo Schreiber

I honestly believe, and I've said it many times, that the universal stems from the specific and I can't walk around with a performance…

— Denzel Washington

It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that…

— Timothy Spall

I like to play people who are deeply flawed, and I want to find the good nature in them. I even try to be…

— Laura Dern

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It's a rare opportunity to play a character that is not only a lot of fun to portray, but it's also rare to play…

— Scott Michael Foster

To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.

— Jamie Dornan

Consider how impossible nobility of character would be if our goodness were untried innocence instead of victorious virtue.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick