Character Quotes

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.

I’m going to do my best to channel the character on a spiritual level.

After you die, you wear what you are.

When you play a character, you bring yourself into the character. You get a chance to shine and show your translation for the character and her state of mind.

I’m the type of person to put myself in everybody else’s shoes.

Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.