I care a lot about fragrance not only in my life, but sometimes it feels right while working on a character.
Laura Dern
LifeCharacterCareMy LifeRight
You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.
John Francis Daley
CharacterFreedomFocusCreativeYou
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Booker T. Washington
CharacterManCircumstancesMakes
I did a play called 'Disgraced' in 2012 at Lincoln Center, which ultimately won the Pulitzer Prize. I played the lead character, a Muslim American, who had renounced Islam and became very anti-Islam.
Aasif Mandvi
CharacterAmericanPlayIslamLead
I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.
John Travolta
CharacterManLooksSometimesActor
If I'm reading a script, and I'm not buying it, I need to be able to relate to the character on some level, and they need to have more than one dimension. I need to have an idea of what this guy's thinking about when he's taking a shower not on camera. And if I can't picture him taking a shower and getting dressed, then he's not a real person.
Rory Culkin
CharacterReadingThinkingPicture
It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.
Benicio Del Toro
CharacterActionSometimesViceRole
Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.
Joseph Barbera
WorkHard WorkCharacterStepWay
To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
P. G. Wodehouse
CharacterSportsManGolfFindPlay
You don't read many scripts, especially for crime dramas, that feature a strong woman as the central character.
Jodie Whittaker
CharacterWomanStrongStrong Woman
Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture.
Christine Pelosi
LeadershipCharacterOpportunityYou
Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was raised as a Lutheran, and I believe in God and consider my faith and involvement with organized religion to be an important part of who I am.
Gary Johnson
GodCharacterFaithReligionI Am
A little girl thought I was mean like my character on 'Zoey,' and I convinced her that 'Logan' is just a fake character and I am really a nice guy.
Matthew Underwood
GirlCharacterI AmThoughtFake
Whenever I see a mirror, I just look at myself, or when I see my own reflection, I quickly take a look; I won't lie about that. But when I am in front of the camera, it's just the character, not me.
Alia Bhatt
CharacterMirrorMyselfReflection
Inner conflict is really fun to play because there's a lot going on, and the choices - when you've got a character with internal conflict - the choices you make have broader ramifications because they have inner ramifications and ramifications in the world.
Silas Weir Mitchell
CharacterFunConflictWorldChoices
For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.
Hayden Christensen
CharacterDayMeStayLikeMovie
Sometimes I'm on a TV set, and I can't feel what I'm supposed to feel as that character because I've not worked my way up to that point. I think there's a bit more insecurity on a set - you've got to blag it, or you've got to do what you've been paid a lot of money to do in a very short space of time.
Michael Socha
CharacterTimeMoneySpaceThink
If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
Taryn Manning
CharacterWeirdSillyYouPlaying
What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.
Douglas Southall Freeman
CharacterQualityManPossibleGoing
Of course, success takes you where your character can't sustain you.
Labrinth
SuccessCharacterYouWhereYour
To distract myself from writing, I was singing Bob Dylan's 'My Back Pages.' You know, 'I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.' I thought, 'I should write a character like that.'
Andrew Sean Greer
CharacterMyselfWritingSingingYou
You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.
Brad Pitt
CharacterManWeekYouKnowTwo
I recently saw this home video where my brother is playing this character Arsenio Grimley, who is a mix of Arsenio Hall and Ed Grimley - which, clearly, is my parents' doing, because he's, like, 10. He's the host, I'm every guest, and then my dad is Elton John. That was a Saturday night.
Abbi Jacobson
HomeCharacterBrotherParentsNight
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
CharacterIdeasYouWayPrejudice
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