Different Characters Quotes - Page 4

• It's almost jarring when you go to play a different character, after playing someone for so long. I love it!

  Bridget Regan

  Character, Play, Long

  "Bridget Regan Talks BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, Joining the Show, and Her Favorite Moments to Shoot". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 7, 2013.

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• I was raised in the theater and I started acting when I was nine. To me, the idea of being an actor was about playing different characters and being a chameleon. That's why I was in the theater.

  Robert Knepper

  Character, Ideas, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast. I made a concerted effort, last year and this year, to get a range of characters, just to show people the range that I have, and for them to be able to see the artistry beyond the color.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Character, Color, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.

  Yvonne Strahovski

  Character, People, Favorites Things

  Source: collider.com

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• I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

  Michael Caine

  Character, Play, Years

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. April 30, 2010.

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• I love being able to play as many different characters, in as many different worlds as I possibly can. That's what I really enjoy.

  Michael Sheen

  Character, Love Is, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• I just felt like, you know, I read a lot of scripts out in L.A., out here in the industry and I just felt like this film was just being genuine. I just felt like it had really great characters. And all the three different characters have completely different stories and they're all kind of intertwined together thematically. So I just thought it had great characters, great themes

  George Tillman, Jr.

  Character, Together, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

  Amanda Peterson

  Character, Play, Knowing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• ... my father loved to take photographs of me. When I was nine I made my own costumes for a school play and I experienced becoming different characters. I loved to document myself as different images and I think my work evolved after this favorite activity. The photographs I exhibited in New York juxtaposed reality and fantasy. There was everyday life and fantasy was dismantling that reality.

  Mariko Mori

  New York, Father, School

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• If it's a language you don't understand and you're not concerned with the meanings of the words, your impression comes from how the words look, particularly if the language uses different characters.

  Squarepusher

  Character, Different, Looks

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I couldn't function if I weren't allowed to stretch and do really different characters where I can change the whole "beingness" of that person. That's my pleasure in acting and has been since I was a kid. That's always been my pleasure to create complete characters.

  John Travolta

  Character, Kids, Acting

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I love playing different characters. I just do. I want to play even more quirky and interesting characters and just something that people wouldn't automatically think that I would be. I want to go against the grain a bit and I'm hoping people will be open-minded enough to cast me in stuff that's going against the grain.

  Dave Bautista

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: dailydead.com

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• I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

  Malin Akerman

  Character, Years, Creating

  "Malin Akerman: The new face of adult swim?". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. August 20, 2010.

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• Saturday Night Live is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.

  Jill Scott

  Fun, Character, Night

  "Jill Scott Talks FRINGE, Why She Wanted the Role, Hopes for Her Character, Being Part of the Final Season, Working with the Cast and Future Guest Spots". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 8, 2012.

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• Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work with. He is fun. The entire time, he would go in and out of different characters, just for the fun of it. Awesome energy.

  Jill Scott

  Fun, Character, Intelligent

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• I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

  Kevin Spacey

  Fun, Character, Mean

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• I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Mother, Character, Two

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• But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more beautiful. The story made us different characters than we would have been if we had skipped the story and showed up at the ending an easier way.

  Donald Miller

  Beautiful, Pain, Character

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• The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it.

  James Madison

  God, Wise, Powerful

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.51, University of Virginia Press

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• I wouldnt call acting a job - its a pleasure. I love getting to play different characters, getting to play dress up, and getting paid for it.

  Rooney Mara

  Jobs, Character, Play

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• There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime.

  Jonathan Swift

  Character, Profound, Sublime

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.26, Delphi Classics

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• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Fun, Halloween

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• If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is from the third person perspective of a different character, so you get to see the whole world a little more kaleidoscopically that way. That's traditional narrative manner, and I haven't done a book like that before, but I enjoyed it.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Book, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be changed at will. That the changing of bodies, like costumes, would make me into a different character, a character who might, finally, be alright.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Character, Brain, Costumes

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.

  Ming-Na Wen

  Character, Trying, Different

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