Dynamic Character Quotes

I was curious. Here was a character where I just didn't know how they were going to write him into 13 episodes without it being one note. My fear was that I didn't want to join something where I was just going to be this prop and this mustache twirling character.

The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat characters ... in their purest form ... are constructed round a single idea or quality; when there is more than one factor to them, we get the beginning of the curve toward the round. The really flat character can be experessed in one sentence such as, "I will never desert Mr Micawber." There is Mrs Micawber - she says she won't desert Mr Micawber; she doesn't, and there she is.

Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning.

At the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that's great, and that's what makes you dynamic.

As an actor what you're always looking for is a character that is going to grow and change especially on television. I feel incredibly lucky to be working on a television show where the writing is always geared towards us growing and changing.

You can, I think, have a quiet and steady protagonist and not run the risk of terminal dullness as long as exciting things happen to them and around them, and crime is the ideal genre for making this come about.

You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

Sometimes I feel like my normal approach to roles has been, 'I want to be more complex, dynamic.'

It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.

It's always fun to layer a character, to make the character a little bit more dynamic than it is on paper.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

You don't want a character who sits on an even playing field the whole time.

I would like to do an action film, and in which I am doing the action. I don't want to be a damsel in distress. I want to be a superhero. I would love to do that.

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.

It's very hard to play the straight lead girl and still make her sparkly and fun and real.

The character can never be static from book to book. People might think you just come up with a new plot and stick this guy in. Well, he has to be as new as the plot every time.

Any woman can be a siren one minute and in pigtails the next. I am a very complex person with more than just the one facet that television played on.

In the end I sort of though we created a companion who was so alive and dynamic and so wedded to the doctor that you’d need a whole universe to contain her in. The only way to get rid of her is to send her into a parallel world from which she can never return; otherwise she would stay with the doctor forever.

I like a character that is still alive and is necessarily thinking, and either grows or diminishes or whatever.

The audience has its own gestalt, and it becomes another character - a character that changes each night.

A well-written character is one where you don't know in which direction it's going; the character could spring a surprise any moment.