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“In theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you have an audience, and you're in control, and every night is different depending on you and the relationship with the other actors. It's as simple as that.”

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Author:Diego Luna

“I can't play a character that I am judging.”

I Can Play Character Judging

Author:Rachelle Lefevre

“In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.”

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Author:Ajay Naidu

“It's very hard to play a hyperactive character all the time, I try my best, but I end up collapsing at the end of the day.”

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Author:Ben Nicholas

“Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.”

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Author:Navid Negahban

“I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play interesting characters. That's really it.”

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Author:Dylan O'Brien

“The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.”

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Author:Frances O'Connor

“I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.”

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Author:Terry O'Quinn

“I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.”

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Author:Marisha Pessl

“I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.”

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Author:Stephanie Leonidas

“Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.”

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Author:Emily Osment

“At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.”

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Author:Adepero Oduye

“There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.”

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Author:Aubrey Plaza

“I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters.”

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Author:Amy Poehler

“I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.”

I Can Play Character Secret Code Maps

Author:Will Patton

“The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do.”

Play Character Unpredictable

Author:Jeremy Renner

“Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.”

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Author:John Slattery

“All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.”

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Author:Alexander Skarsgard

“It's great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if you will. Normally, you don't get that opportunity. The narrative of a movie usually demands that you are that guy from the start.”

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Author:Mark Strong

“The best compliment I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don't notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the TV show happens.”

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Author:J.K. Simmons

“Well, it was very interesting to play a character and stretch it over such a long time - 12 episodes. I had never done a TV show before, so week to week it was unclear what we would be asked to do.”

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Author:Nick Stahl

“I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.”

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Author:Holland Taylor

“Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.”

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Author:James Franco

“It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.”

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Author:Emily VanCamp

“I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.”

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Author:Kerry Washington

“My father and mother are both very smart people and I always felt I was a little short of the mark. So I would compensate with a character like Logan Cale. He's wearing glasses, he's in a wheelchair, he's a computer genius. He's very far away from who I am, but I really wanted to play roles where I'd be taken seriously.”

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Author:Michael Weatherly

“When you play a character with power and energy, people lock into that and go, "Oh, this must be the guy."”

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Author:Jeremy Piven

“I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and paralleled my life a little bit. I feel like I'm one of the poster boys for a bad guy in a movie. I feel like I'm a good person to play a bad guy in a movie. I can say that.”

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Author:Gucci Mane

“I'm not a fan of anybody music who I feel like a sucka. I don't listen to you. They play you in the club, you can have the #1 jam, but if I know your character, how can I listen to your music?”

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Author:Gucci Mane

“Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.”

Play Character Actors Loathe

Author:Ian McShane

“No one thinks they're irritating. Nobody thinks they're boring. So if you're playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves.”

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Author:Nick Moran

“TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.”

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Author:Christopher Meloni

“People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.”

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Author:Kevin Whately

“I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.”

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Author:John Hodgman

“I've always believed since I was a kid that God was gonna allow me to play professional football, to use it as a platform to proclaim and live out the name of Jesus. And, you know, that's the most exciting part about my life because God has done things in me to change my character to benefit the kingdom.”

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Author:Reggie White

“I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.”

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Author:Daniel Cudmore

“For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.”

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Author:Omari Hardwick

“If you look at my body of work, my characters drastically vary, and so I typically don't play the same role. It makes me feel reborn with each role.”

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Author:Toni Trucks

“Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.”

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Author:Leslie Easterbrook

“When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.”

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Author:Leslie Easterbrook

“For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play.”

Play Character Actors Thrilling

Author:Jessica Pare

“I did The Seagull, the Chekhov play, on Broadway, a couple of years ago, and I had done it in London, and I became completely obsessed with the character, Nina, that I played in that. She's an actress. I couldn't find a play after that, that I wanted to do, because I couldn't think of doing anything else. Every part is a disappointment, once you've done that part.”

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Author:Carey Mulligan

“With me, growing up in a theater family and having them be so supportive, from the jump, and being a part of this theater community where the brass ring is working, wherever that is, and then to play a character where he's not really concerned with that and is really just concerned with the monetary aspect of the job, and then to be identified with someone who is the antithesis of your energy and where you come from, has been a very interesting and surreal ride.”

“I'd like to do a play, but I can't find the right thing. I don't want it to be a starring role. I just want to play a really interesting character.”

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Author:Carey Mulligan

“I relate to those characters - and any character I play - in as much as I put myself in their positions and feel how I would personally deal with their experiences.”

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Author:Nathan Fillion

“I try to have a balance of things you like and things you don't like about a character. But once you start that, all these scripts are like, "You play the douchebag friend of Ashton Kutcher." It's all these characters that are overconfident or hyper-masculine.”

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Author:Jemaine Clement

“I love doing a television show. It just always feels like it's a little while before you find something that feels unique and that feels like a character that you really want to play for awhile.”

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Author:Shiri Appleby

“ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.”

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Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play.”

Play Character Culture Bears Arise

Author:Johan Huizinga

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