Famous Quote by Penelope Wilton Download Open image “When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.” — Penelope Wilton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Famous Figure Figures Go Iconic Lightly Play Someone Who You
It's tough, when you play an iconic character, to break away from it. You have to make sure you have a lot of variety… — Billie Lourd Copy Share Image
Taking on an iconic character is difficult, sure, people associate different actors with a character that you're playing, but there's something in rehearsing and… — Kathryn Hahn Copy Share Image
You've got to be honest with yourself aesthetically about who could you play. You want to artistically be true to that character. — Columbus Short Copy Share Image
I think playing any iconic role when you're stepping into big shoes, into the shadow of people who have come before you and you… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
As an actor, I've been all over the map, but since I've moved to Hollywood, people tend to cast me in these more imposing… — Kevin Durand Copy Share Image
In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you… — Janet Montgomery 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
When you play somebody's life, everything about your likeness, everything about the way you talk, whatever, has to become that person. — Tyrese Gibson Copy Share Image
The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let… — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go. — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is… — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book. — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
You can't look at people being crucified. Even if you know it is just pretend. — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life. — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them? — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America. — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can… — Gabrielle Reece Copy Share Image
The News of the World made me more famous than being in Atomic Kitten. — Kerry Katona Copy Share Image
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
When Americans, who have no idea who I am, laugh at my jokes, it's exactly the same if someone loves you even if you're… — Gad Elmaleh Copy Share Image
And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I was fascinated by the story of FW Murnau, one of the most famous directors in Germany, where I come from. — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous. — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image