Character Playing Quotes

There are plenty of actors who've caught the singing bug and vice versa, but with musical performers, you're constantly a persona - which is something I love about acting: you play a character, you leave and you get to be yourself again.

What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.

I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.

I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

I've said this before, but I've always felt more comfortable playing the guy who thinks he's the hot shot or thinks he's the greatest and is so far from it, you know? The misguided character. That's always more interesting to me - especially with a comedy. I've always felt inside more like a character actor.

I love playing different characters.

I am delighted to join Doctor Who and to be working with this incredible team. Ms Delphox is a great character and someone I've had a lot of fun playing.

I love playing complex characters.

For 'Hercules,' I went for the demigod look: big and mean. When you're playing a character like the son of Zeus, you only get one shot.

On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.

Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.

I discovered that there was no difference between playing a real-life character and a fictional one.

Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

It was so much fun to play, that I've now had a taste for it and want to play more villains now.

Playing a character who becomes a Buddhist was a great experience.

Larry Drake - I love his work... He plays a very disabled character like the role I'm playing.

I've never played a character that would sing.

I shall miss all the people in it and the great fun we had doing it. I enjoyed playing the character very much. It was a very, very special character and a very special series. And the camaraderie of it all. I loved it.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

As an actor, you have to just think about the truth of your character. You have to think about how to play the character in the way that you know it needs to be played in your heart and why you were hired.

I love playing 'Madame Vastra.' Although I do suffer, spending three-and-a-half hours in make-up every morning to have her lizard skin put on. I was so excited the first day when we did the make-up test, but after six hours, I was like, 'Can we finish now?'

Playing characters is fun because you get the chance to put yourself in someone else's shoes.

I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

I love a period drama - the theatricality of going into work and having that distance between yourself and the character you're playing.