Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character and... →
Richard Bausch
I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do... →
Stephen Bayley
It's much easier to come back as a recurring character. Because you already know his traits and who he is and what he's about.
Adam Beach
Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these... →
With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out... →
I don't have an answer for why Hollywood still casts non-ethnic people for ethnic roles. It's something that has to change. Sometimes... →
When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of... →
Jennifer Beals
Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not... →
006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal... →
Sean Bean
If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.