I became an actor so I can show you characters and never have to show you me..
I'm interested in playing Rasputin at some point. I find him such a fascinating character and a fascinating period in Russian history. Either Rasputi….
Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly unde….
I really wanted our male characters to be a lot stronger. We gave them careers, lives..
Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view..
At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work..
I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just love people and want to see people having a good….
And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building..
I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and e….
Having read the source material, I had to have drawn from that. As a fan, I wanted to remain true to that character, but it was really cool because, ….
Yeah, it's scary. During filming, it wasn't just jitters from being the newer guy there or the greenest guy there. It was also fear of not messing up….
When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life..
I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what ….
I'm a character actor..
We want to be able to let the audience get to know these folks. One of the things about The Avengers, over the last 50 years, is the fun of changing ….
While I talked about comparisons between Cap and Cable, there's also a parallel with Tony Stark. Iron Man thinks of himself as a 'futurist,' Cable is….
When we first sat down and talked about how much of the show we were going to do based on the movie, there are certainly things you can see right awa….
I can't bear shopping. I can choose clothes for my characters, but not for myself. I've got no dress sense. Or I've lost it..
I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again..
I like down-to-Earth characters, but I also like being able to get outside my box of knowledge..
I don't work with an outline, except a vague one in my head, a general idea of character, place, arc... I'm like a composer with a symphony in their ….