I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

They've turned this character into a human being.

Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.

Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.

And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.

I'm gonna be a character in a Happy Meal.

I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.

For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing.

I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.