“I don't like words coming out of a character's mouth that I adore because not only is he a little bit duplicitous but he's kind of practical in the way he thinks, and he thinks in terms of everyone's humanity and how quickly we can go against what we think we meant when we said it or what we believe or blah, blah, blah.” ThinkingWayBelieveKindLittlesSaidCharacterHumanityBitsTermLittle BitMouthsPracticalsComing OutAdoreBlah Author:Robert Downey, Jr.
“I wanted it to be a wonderful combination of being able to dance a little bit, not being especially good, but also playing a character who says the line, "I love to dance".” LittlesCharacterAbleWantedBitsLinesWonderfulLittle BitCombination Author:Mary Steenburgen
“My character was a homogenization of various things, whether it be the attitude of a Bruiser Brody, or the look of Nikita Koloff or the way that Nikita looked at the people. I took a little bit of what I liked and what I had seen throughout the years from everybody that I was entertained by and made it my own.” PeopleWayYearsLooksLittlesMadeCharacterBitsMy OwnAttitudeLittle BitVariousMade It Author:Bill Goldberg
“In a story, for example, you'll start off with a character who is a little bit of a cartoon. That's not satisfying and you start revising. And as you revise you always are making it better by being specific and by observing more closely, which actually is really the same as saying you love your characters. The close observation equals love of them.” LittlesCharacterStoriesBitsLove YouExampleLittle BitObservationSatisfyingCartoonObservingRevising Author:George Saunders
“Every role affects an actor a little bit. There's always a little chunk of a character that stays left over in your heart.” HeartLittlesCharacterActorsLeftBitsRolesLittle BitChunks Author:Natalie Dormer
“I think you always take away a little bit of a character with you, and it kinda like hangs on you for a bit, and then as time kind of goes and wears off a little bit.” ThinkingKindLittlesCharacterBitsLittle Bit Author:Jackson Rathbone
“It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it always begins with the writer. With the kernel of an idea, or a character, or an idea or a theme, or even an outcome. But for documentary photographers, photographs begin at that intersection of the real world and the imaginative inner world.” WorldWritingMayLittlesIdeasRealCharacterBitsTalkingLittle BitPhotographerPhotographOutcomesThemeReal WorldDocumentariesImaginativeInner WorldIntersectionsKernel Author:Sam Abell
“The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He's having a mid-life moment, and it's a small moment, really. I think that the character actually really loves where he's at, in his life. He's just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.” ThinkingWorldWantTryingLittlesMomentsCharacterBitsShareFiguresLittle BitOrdinaryDaughterMusic LoveSmall MomentsOrdinary World Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“I had done a little bit one other time. This character [in Jack Reacher] is a psychopath, but I had been hired by Carlton Cuse and Randall Wallace.” LittlesDoneCharacterBitsLittle BitPsychopath Author:Patrick Heusinger
“I got an email from Nick [Kroll] that he and John [Mulaney] were looking to put on the stage show with two of their characters from Kroll Show and could I help at all. And they were doing it [off-Broadway] at the Cherry Lane and they had been performing it at UCB, just sort of testing it out. I worked on it for a little bit downtown and it was a great experience.” LittlesTwoCharacterHelpingShowsBitsStageLittle BitPerformingEmailBroadwayTestingLanesCherriesDowntownGreat Experiences Author:Alex Timbers
“Myself and Yorgos Lanthimos, we spoke a little bit and I was at a certain body weight that I was closer to making a statement or defining the character physically by losing weight. There was no justification for him to be emaciated, but I thought, say I was 165, I thought what if I went down to 155 and have him rail-thin? And Yorgos was like, "Well, if he's very thin I think maybe it will speak to some kind of psychological trouble that we want to stay away from," and I was like, "F - -, you're right."” IfsThinkingWantWellsKindLittlesCharacterBodyCertainSpeakBitsTroubleLittle BitLosingWeightStatementsPsychologicalSpokesWhat IfJustificationDefiningRailBody Weight Author:Colin Farrell
“Yorgos Lanthimos said, "What about if he's a bit soft?" And I said, "Yeah, I think you're right." He just comfort-eats a little bit too much. He's just asleep in his own life and has let himself go. And the mustache, I don't know if it was him or I suggested it. But I remember my sister was watching me eat and she was like, "God, does he have to be fat?" And in retrospect I couldn't think of David being any other way because it affected the way I moved. It really did. It slowed me down in a way that I felt was conducive to kind of tapping into the spirit of the character.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayKindLittlesDoeSaidCharacterRememberSpiritFeltBitsToo MuchComfortLittle BitYeahMovedFatsAffectedMy SisterRetrospectMustacheTapping Author:Colin Farrell
“What I like about Paper Girls in particular is that because we're approaching it more from a female perspective, we're able to consider the emotional states of these characters a little bit more, and think more of their interiority.” ThinkingLittlesStatesCharacterAbleGirlBitsEmotionalParticularPerspectivePaperLittle BitFemale Author:Cliff Chiang
“I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not caught, I become a little bit more of this ugly thing: a liar. Character is always in the making, with each morally valenced action, whether right or wrong, affecting our characters, the people who we are.” PeopleIfsLittlesCharacterActionBitsLittle BitCaughtUglyWho We AreLiarsUgly Things Book:Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
“I'd already rehearsed it [ Don't Kill It script ] for the first time it was supposed to happen and the second time. That was a blessing in disguise because the character [Jebediah Woodley] grew a little bit in me.” FirstsLittlesCharacterHappensBitsGrewBlessingLittle BitFirst TimeScriptsDisguiseBlessings In Disguise Author:Dolph Lundgren
“It's fun to play characters in songs. I can just cheat a little bit... be this person for just a small amount of time and just help vent that idea.” LittlesPersonsI CanIdeasPlayCharacterHelpingSongFunBitsAmountLittle BitCheatSmall Amounts Author:Brendon Urie