About Quote by Manoj Bajpayee

I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the…

— Steve Coogan

You know, the hard thing about audiences not liking what a character does is that they sometimes take it out on the actor personally.…

— Linda Cardellini

Often times, if a character is pretty straightforward, he or she is not as interesting to portray.

— Jonathan Jackson

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or…

— Mary-Louise Parker

I think if you're too embroiled in the need to relate too closely to the character, then you start to judge the character for…

— Cate Blanchett

People can have whatever ideas that they like. But what I'm not OK with is my character being in question.

— August Alsina

The great thing about playing a character that's similar to the audience, or similar to you, is that you get to have the same…

— Topher Grace

I don't think the challenge is asking an audience to like a character; it's inviting them to try and understand them... then making that…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

The way people respond to struggles or express their feelings in difficult situations are very different. I like imagining how characters would react in…

— Lee Yoon-ki

When you approach it, and I hate sounding like the pretentious actor, but yeah, I think you have to find things within the character…

— Steve Carell

I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters…

— Rick Moody