Actor Quote by Michael Shurtleff

You fight for your character in the script. It's part of our job to evolve them, show all sides of them.

— Kano

It's important to fight for your character but at the same time realize there's a bigger picture involved and, you know, this is a…

— Hayden Panettiere

I believe that a great character can be made in one scene, or a few moments.

— Lucas Hedges

I enjoy sometimes focusing on a character in a scene that's not actually doing the main action or the talking.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character has, or…

— William Shatner

Most actors work on a scene, I try to find out who the character is. So when a scene or a moment comes, I…

— Shefali Shah

That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character…

— Gary Oldman

Being an actress has the same requirements as being an actor, but it needs more. Fair, reed thin, tall, can lip-synch, can dance, can…

— Shefali Shah

First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.

— Amy Ryan

TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be…

— Rose Byrne

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and…

— Bill Condon

Being large and muscular, you are not taken very seriously as an actor. When bigger roles come up and the actor needs to be…

— James Preston Rogers