Character Quotes

As a hero, you have to play it straight. The audience is going to live through you, so you have to be more neutral. They will be projecting their thoughts and their actions onto the main character.

How do you project a character if you don’t have a sense of where she is from? I’ve always just gotten on a plane to go to the area to get a sense of what it is like, to smell it, feel the earth, hear people talk, go to the marketplaces.

There’s more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you’re being a character.

I became an actor so I can show you characters and never have to show you me.

You truly are the average of the 5 people you surround yourself with.

I’m not funny. What I am is brave.

My gratification in working comes from the preparation and the building of the character.

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

When you’re doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.

You never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others.