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“Style is a display of character. It's also a great way to express yourself and the ladies like it.”

Way Character Style Display Express Yourself

“Every single movie that I've ever done has affected my life; I always feel more changed by a character than I affect them or change them, always. I mean, that's just kind of the way it is.”

Way Feels Kind Mean Done Character Changed Affected

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“Generally, the bigger the budget, the less interesting the characters become.”

Character Interesting Bigger Budgets

Author:Matt Damon

“I think of clothes a lot like costumes. I think of what I wear in real life as being my real life character's costume.”

Thinking Real Character Clothes Real Life Costumes

Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“I'd like to think that I don't have a stock character that I go to. I'm lucky in that when you get to initiate your own scene, you get to play whoever you want. That's really kind of cool, but all my characters are short. I look on the videotape, and I thought they were taller, but they're all 5'2".”

Thinking Want Looks Kind Play Character Scene Lucky Initiate

Author:Amy Poehler

“I never make a film with a message in mind. I'm more interested in the characters; how they are related to each other and the situation they're in.”

Mind Character Film Situation Messages Related

Author:Lee Yoon-ki

“The way people respond to struggles or express their feelings in difficult situations are very different. I like imagining how characters would react in certain situations.”

People Way Different Character Feelings Certain Difficult Situation Struggle Difficult Situations

Author:Lee Yoon-ki

“Sometimes I forget what I put in. I want to capture things in that way, where you're looking into your memory, a dream or hallucination. The characters become a mixture of archetypes, [and] that's what I like. You're trying to figure it out and your brain wants to categorize things, but it can't because of this motion. You want to solve the problem, but it never gets solved. It's like when you read a really good book and the story never leaves you.”

Way Want Trying Book Sometimes Character Stories Problem Dream Memories Forget Brain Figures Like You Solve Capture Mixtures Good Book Our Memories Hallucinations Archetype I Like You

Author:Ali Banisadr

“It's always an interesting challenge to see if you can create a character that's got emotion.”

Ifs Character Challenges Interesting Emotion

Author:Tim Burton

“To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the director says, "Action!" Then you snap your mind into shape and into the character that you're playing and relate to the people that you're acting with and forget everybody else that you've been joking with.”

People Mind Matter Character Action Forget Acting Laughing Minutes Shapes Directors Absolutes Relate Concentration Snaps Giggle

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“You should always challenge yourself, as an actor, to find the connection between you and the character.”

Should Character Actors Challenges Connections Challenge Yourself

Author:Michael Ealy

“I like doing sequels. Basically, I think it's a fun thing to follow characters in time. In real time.”

Thinking Real Character Fun Sequels Fun Things

Author:Julie Delpy

“A film is a living thing. The screenplay is a guideline. You really need to have a good, sound script to know that you have a dramatic structure that's going to work thematically, and to know how one scene will got through another, and to get a sense of character.”

Knows Needs Character Film Sound Know How Scene Structure Scripts Dramatic Going To Work Living Things Screenplays Guidelines

Author:Jose Padilha

“I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.”

Thinking Character Doubt No Doubt

Author:Kevin Spacey

“As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.”

Character Used Actors Becoming Research Becoming Someone Becoming Someone Else

Author:Angela Bassett

“That's the main thing, looking for interesting characters, good directors, and experiences where you're growing and learning.”

Character Interesting Growing Directors Interesting Characters Good Directors Learning And Growing

Author:Nicholas Hoult

“When I commit to a role, I always tell myself that role is king. That's the Bible. If I start to judge my character, than it's going to influence my performance, and I don't want that. I want to find the truth in the character.”

Ifs Want Character Roles Influence Judging Kings Performances Commit

Author:Cuba Gooding, Jr.

“Comedy is immediate. Comedy is a solo mission. You're all by yourself, up there. And when you're in a film, on a set, it's a collaborative effort. It's about me being a tool for somebody else to create a story and a character from nothing, from their imagination.”

Character Stories Film Imagination Effort Comedy Tools Missions Solo Collaborative Effort

Author:Dane Cook

“I always tend to like the characters that I play. I'm convinced that I am this person and I'm OK with whatever they do.”

Persons Play Character Convinced

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“I prepare mentally and physically for everything I do. I like having to do both, because you submerge yourself into the character and the world and you live it until it's over.”

World Character

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“People watch me when I get into these characters that I have in my head, so perhaps I should try acting. So I did.”

People Should Trying Character Acting Watches Watch Me

Author:John Boyega

“I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama on cable has characters that are really intricate and deep and have multiple layers.”

Character Facts Modern Television Drama Layers Multiple Cables Intricate

Author:Matthew Lillard

“It's one thing to be sitting at a drawing board, alone in your home and coming up with a fantasy character, and drawing her whichever way you feel like drawing, then dealing with a real performer. All of a sudden, things change. It's amazing, in working with actors, how much I learn from them and how many new lines will come to mind because of their personality or their strengths.”

Way Feels Mind Real Character Home Actors Lines Fantasy One Thing Personality Sitting Drawing Boards Performers Things Change

Author:Frank Miller

“If you become very self-conscious about what you are doing, you kill. You kill the character. Then it doesn't work. You have to come from a sincere place. And you don't think too much. I don't go to the hotel and I start thinking what am I going to say tomorrow and start writing things down.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Self Character Too Much Tomorrow Conscious Hotel Sincere Self Conscious Doing You Writing Things Down

Author:Antonio Banderas

“There should always be that leeway because if you think of your character as sort of absolutely fixed, then you just try and find actors to come and do exactly that thing, then you're not gonna be working with that actor's own set of internal impulses and who they are, so the best work is always a coming together of the actor and the character.”

Ifs Thinking Should Trying Character Together Actors Impulse Fixed Internals Think Of You Best Work Coming Together

Author:Lenny Abrahamson

“I watch a lot of different films. A lot of different performances and I find a lot of little things from the films or things that actors do or people in real life who have behaviors or idiosyncrasies that I like or find interesting and I try to remember that. And then I'll do a prayer. I'll do a prayer to ask the character or the spirit of the character to come and visit me. And let's work together.”

“I actually take images of things and put them up around the wall and in a room. I set a room aside. It might be colors, it might be animals, or energy and words. And I'll just leave it there, so it begins to work on my subconscious when I think about the character. Which gives me some latitude to be really flexible and spontaneous but within the context of the character and the world of the character without having to think about it. Or I'll look at something or read something and let it work on my subconscious mind.”

Thinking World Giving Mind Looks Character Might Energy Animal Rooms Color Wall Give Me Subconscious Spontaneous Flexible Subconscious Mind Latitude

Author:Wesley Snipes

“I think every woman character, every female character, has her own arc.”

Thinking Character Female Arcs Female Characters

Author:Katheryn Winnick

“I don't even know why, but my entire career is contemporary films. Entire career! There's no period movies - there's one - but there's no period movies, no special effects movies. I just do character studies and so, some of them are gonna bump into each other, but I love the challenge, with a good script. I love the challenge of playing not a very pleasant or attractive character that seduces an audience or wins an audience over by the end.”

Knows Ends Character Film Winning Challenges Careers Audience Study Special Effects Periods Scripts Contemporary Attractive Pleasant Bumps Seducing Special Effects

Author:Michael Douglas

“I always prefer the character moments. For me, personally, whether I'm shooting the gun or not shooting the gun, I really don't care. I'm the guy who's like, "Whatever you want me to do." But, I really get excited about the character moments that are steeped in emotion when the stakes are high.”

Want Moments Character Care Guy Emotion Gun Don't Care Excited Shooting Stakes Want Me You Want Me

Author:Brandon Jay McLaren

“I think because I have quite a normal family and I'm bored with how normal my family is. I want to mess stuff up a bit. I chose the messed up characters because I find that that's acting. I want to explore emotions that you otherwise wouldn't be able to explore.”

Want Character Able Stuff Bits Acting Emotion Normal My Family Mess Bored Messed Up Normal Family

Author:Chloe Grace Moretz

“When I'm writing a comic book, I'm thinking about a character that I'm going to be drawing on the page. I've never drawn a character to look like who I want to cast in a movie because I don't think that way. I'm a real monomaniac. I do one thing at a time.”

Thinking Way Want Writing Looks Book Real Character One Thing Pages Casts Drawing Comic Comic Book One Thing At A Time

Author:Frank Miller

“It's nice to play a character who's written as a mixed race character and is not a drug addict.”

Play Character Race Nice Written Drug Addict Drug Addict Mixed Race

Author:Howard Charles

“For me, it's always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that's close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just because I can't stand the way I look. But, I think it's important to change every time and come up with something that's as interesting as it can be, for your characters.”

Thinking Way Trying Looks I Can Important Play Character Difficult Interesting Come Up Because I Can Exposing

Author:Johnny Depp

“My dream is to be a character in a Wes Anderson movie. I just love how interesting and eclectic and stylized his characters are, and I would love to dive into that world.”

World Character Dream Interesting Eclectic

Author:Emma Roberts

“I don't feel like you can fully find the true character until you're in his wardrobe, on set, and really getting into the scene. And that's when you really find out who your character is.”

Feels Character Like You Scene Wardrobe True Character

Author:Tye Sheridan

“I think real humans are so complicated, and often [characters] are written more one-dimensional without maybe even the writer knowing it. I've felt numerous moments in my life where my most confident moment and my most insecure moment were exactly the same time. There's nothing funny or interesting about perfection.”

Thinking Humans Real Moments Character Felt Interesting Knowing Written Perfection Complicated Insecure

Author:Kristen Bell

“When I originally sold X-Men it was because I knew there was 40 years of stories. That was the point! Not only to do the movie and establish the characters, you know, you love the one you're doing. It was because there are all these great stories, what a wealth of drama.”

Knows Men Years Character Stories Wealth Drama X Men Love The One You Re

Author:Lauren Shuler Donner

“As the actor, you just have to believe in what your character is doing in order to play them.”

Believe Play Character Order Actors

Author:Kristen Bell

“I stay true, because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character.”

Stills Character Projects Stay True

Author:Forest Whitaker

“The biggest challenge is not the storytelling, it's to track every character's arc through the entire movie.”

Character Challenges Track Storytelling Arcs

Author:Simon Kinberg

“I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.”

Men Character Action Actors Hero Character Actors Action Heroes

Author:Aaron Paul

“It's rare that I've read a script where I'm like, "Oh, my god, it's hilarious!" All you want is a good skeleton and good characters. Then, you can go, "Okay, I can bring a lot to this. I can improvise and I can create something out of this."”

Want I Can Character Okay Scripts Skeletons Good Character

Author:Nick Swardson

“For the actor's wishes to be respected in terms of characteristics that your character's gonna have, you have to work with good and intelligent and talented stunt people that not only can carry weapons well but can also carry a personality.”

People Wells Character Actors Wish Term Personality Weapons Intelligent Characteristics

Author:Zoe Saldana

“The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's what I'm trying to do.”

Trying Character Three Emotion Movement Holy Cameras Filmmaking Trifecta

Author:David O. Russell

“I always believe, with any kind of hero, that you want to believe that their decision-making is right. That ultimately, I can trust what that guy's sense of right and wrong will be. Even in a vigilante movie, where you are going against the law by definition, you still want to agree with the fact that your character is breaking the law.”

“There's actually a big difference between story and character. A great story doesn't make a great movie. A great script, which defines its moments and characters can become a great movie. You can make a movie that makes a lot of money and it may or may not have great story or great characters.”

May Moments Character Stories Bigs Differences Scripts Lots Of Money Great Character

Author:Kevin Costner

“I love the stories that have come before, that we know of. I think for me it's always more interesting to start from square one and you take the fundamental pillars of the character and, around that, try to create something new and different.”

Thinking Knows Trying Different Character Stories Interesting Fundamentals Something New Squares Pillars

Author:Chris Pine

“Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.”

People Matter Play Character Faces Pretending

Author:Stanley Tucci

“The way I see the job, my definition of it, is to create characters to the best of your ability and then fit into what's trying to be accomplished in the general framework of the film. I think that's whether you're doing this- even if you're doing musical theater. That's what I think an actors job is. I don't know. I like to think what an actors job is is to create characters.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Trying Character Jobs Film Actors Ability Fit Theater Musical Definitions Accomplished Framework Musical Theater

Author:Anton Yelchin

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