Character Quote by Jon Hamm

Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I…

— Patrick Marber

I've been fortunate, I guess: I've gotten to play a lot of very diverse roles for quite a long time. But in the beginning,…

— Forest Whitaker

I definitely did not play myself. As the writer of the script, I have traits of all the characters. I can relate to all…

— Cherien Dabis

I like to play characters that have an inner confidence about them that maybe you wouldn't expect them to have and that they aren't…

— Aidy Bryant

I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright…

— Jean Kerr

Most of my major roles have been to play characters that the audience does not initially like or warm up to and then they…

— Robert Picardo

I frustrate myself as a writer. There are certain things that I'll think, 'Well, that would be really fun to play... if somebody else…

— Lena Dunham

Acting almost always draws people with that mix, who see themselves as shy and anxious, but love to perform. Part of the joy of…

— Rebecca Front

I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I…

— Ellen McLaughlin

I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you…

— Carla Gugino

It's always hard as an actor I think to be just on the set and have the kind of confidence to be like, 'Yeah,…

— Noel Fisher

I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave…

— Charles Kimbrough