Jonah Hill Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.

  Jonah Hill

  Character, Play, Important

  "Jonah Hill ALLEN GREGORY Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 29, 2011.

• As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama. When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.

  Jonah Hill

  Drama, Writing, Character

  Source: film.avclub.com

• The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard.

  Jonah Hill

  Character, Want, Succeed

• The hardest thing for me to do, and the best thing I've done and learned as an actor is to sacrifice being funny in certain circumstances in order to do something that makes sense for the story or the character, or emotionally.

  Jonah Hill

  Character, Sacrifice, Order

  "Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse of Superbad". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 15, 2007.

• I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at.

  Jonah Hill

  Character, I Realized

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

• When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.

  Jonah Hill

  Drama, Character, Style

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

• I'm very, very attracted to morally ambiguous characters, not just pure bad guys or pure good guys.

  Jonah Hill

  Character, Guy, Ambiguous

  "Interview With Jonah Hill And Todd Phillips On New Film 'War Dogs'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. August 21, 2016.

• I like playing characters that, you know, a couple could go see the movie and one person could love him and one person could hate him.

  Jonah Hill

  Couple, Hate, Character

  "Interview With Jonah Hill And Todd Phillips On New Film 'War Dogs'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. August 21, 2016.

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