How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting... →
Santiago Cabrera
At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it helped. When I was too... →
Frank Cady
I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.
Nicolas Cage
The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes.
Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit... →
At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power... →
I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that... →
I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
Michael Caine
To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and... →
To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.