Charles Dance Quotes

Playing the character of Arjun is a challenging task, and I like taking up challenges.

My job as an actor is to live the role that I do.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

An actor has to embody a role.

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.

For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out.

Character is plot, and casting is character.

Your job as an actor, I guess, is just to make people relate to the character.

The most vital thing for an actor to deliver a great performance is to be honest to the role he or she is playing.

In my entire career, only two actors challenged me as villain in my films. One is Raghuvaran's character of Mark Antony in 'Baasha' and Ramya Krishnan's portrayal of Neelambari in 'Padaiyappa.'

Like any other actor, I also look for good scripts and want to portray some memorable characters on screen.

When an actor decides to play a character, he must exude some sort of charisma and look relatable, even if he is playing the role of a really unattractive person.

I'd like to have a different look for every film. As an actor, I think I should put more emphasis on my performance than on my looks.

In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him. He was a performance artist in a way.

I prefer to play the bad guy - it gives you more freedom as an actor.

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

The character of Johnny Drama was a lot of fun to play.

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.

Playing a bad guy is always more fun than playing the good guy.

The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting.