Base Quote by Matt Bomer

Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and…

— Tim DeKay

For every role, I brought certain elements of the character. Even on 'White Collar' over six years, I tried to keep the set fun…

— Matt Bomer

I love that I get to play a black character who's not a stereotype, who is not afraid to be vulnerable, who comes from…

— Ncuti Gatwa

I had been thinking for a while about how bored and tired I was of playing straight-down-the-middle everymanish characters that have what I call…

— Justin Long

I like to play very raw characters, characters who have a degree of vulnerability and passion about what they're doing.

— Jason O'Mara

I tend to enjoy roles that I very closely identify with: fringe people and complicated characters, who might even be bad guys, or bad…

— Dylan Sprouse

Watching people like Brandon Graham, Erik Larsen, and Joe Keatinge produce stories for my characters was a revelation... Like, 'Why are you doing work…

— Rob Liefeld

I like characters that are complex. I don't like people who are simple to play and are either black or white.

— Neeraj Kabi

The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from…

— Paul Newman

I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a breaking point.

— Andy Daly

Interesting characters are troubled characters. The only problem I've had in my business is very few people - unfortunately, very vocal - confusing the…

— Val Kilmer

I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and…

— Ed Stoppard