#hara

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#anyone #based #character #draw #else

Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#because #both #break #break up #characters

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 young to play real character parts, they mistook me for older because of the bald noggin. I got juicy roles right from the start. ↗

— Frank Cady

#bald #ball #because #character #cue

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#comes #drunk #man #out #true

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#each #exactly #meant #other #our

All of my characters have a glint of madness. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#madness

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold. ↗

— Euripides

#gold #little #moment #only #our

And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#agree #always #attorney #because #character

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. ↗

— Sam Ewing

#character #hard #hard work #noses #people

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people. ↗

— Edie Falco

#fodder #gain #i #i think #people