Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent.

I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.

You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.

I like to take a character and develop it.

But, you know, it really depends on the character. Age doesn't really matter.

I don't know if I am cut out to playing a bad character or not - I really should give it a shot. I would like to play the voice of a baddie, but that's really just a cop-out!

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.