I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.
With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are.
A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.
Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
Seek perfection of character. Be faithful. Endeavor. Respect others. Refrain from violent behaviour.
I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.
One of my complaints with American TV characters is that they all have a particular schtick, a hook.
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
Being called a person, as such, indicates that one should only have one character and be true to it.
Youll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isnt rolling.
In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.
To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.
Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect.
When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.
The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.
I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?
Most of the characters I'd played were so different from me, so far from me that I had to transform.
It's not enough to picture their outward appearance. Give them a background and sphere of influence.
I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.
As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!
It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.
Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.
It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.
My first name was inspired by the character of Aslan, the lion in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.
You won't ever see me being totally sexy on 'Rookie Blue.' It's not right for the character, anyway.
I think what I find challenging is just trying to bring a truthfulness and a realism to a character.
Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
I'm really lucky because my goal, as an actor, is to disappear into the characters that I'm playing.
Failure isn't a character quality. It's just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.
Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.
IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA.