Character Quote by John Lithgow Download Open image “I'm always being asked to play roles or characters that I don't really resemble.” — John Lithgow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Play Roles
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 Copy Share Image
I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people. — Holland Taylor Copy Share Image
Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me. — Michael Gambon Copy Share Image
Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that… — Mark Hamill Copy Share Image
If you look at the rest of my stuff, I always play characters that kind of don't look like me, 'cause I love transforming… — Victor Rasuk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I just don't play a character for the heck of it. Rather, I always look for a human element in every character that I… — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image
There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work… — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
It's nice when you've done enough movies that you can do your own anthology. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
The essence of comedy, drama, and horror is surprise. I have an uncanny ability to surprise people because they look at my face, and… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I think there are all sorts of ways of turning into an actor, and there are a vast variety of different actors. You know,… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
My very first role was when I was 2 1/2 years old; I was one of Nora's children in 'A Doll's House,' with my… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I'm as flighty as anybody. You put a lot out there. I've been through the process a lot. When I play a major role,… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
