Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

If you're playing the character, you could say to yourself in 16 different ways, What if that didn't bother me? What if I knew exactly what he was talking about? What if I didn't get excited?

My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.

To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

The character of a people may be ruined by charity.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.

I'm a character actor at heart.

It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.

Most horror films fail to scare me. I think "The Ring" plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper.

Not often do you approach a character where people know more about him than you do.