Character Quote by John Malkovich Download Open image “You have to play your characters, not like them.” — John Malkovich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Play
As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
You have to play the character in the best way you know how and do what you need to do in order to bring… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do. — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either. — Gale Harold Copy Share Image
You have to make sure you have the characters you want. That's really the most complicated part. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Playing characters is fun because you get the chance to put yourself in someone else's shoes. — Tierra Whack Copy Share Image
Films take too long. There's too much BS, too much nonsense. If I want to do a play, I just call the theater, whether… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently. — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
One doesn't know if one had a happy childhood or not. I don't really know what it means. — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all. — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. And it's pretty irritating to get… — John Malkovich 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
