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I would say that the fan support validated my choices as an actor and... the work ethic and the amount of work that went into that character day in and day out. I think the fan support really validates that and all of the cast and crew that worked really hard to make the world of 'Almost Human' look the way it did.
Michael Ealy
Work
Day
Character
World
Think
Crew
Validated
Way
Say
Out
Would
Cast
Support
Almost
Day-Out
Look
Make
Did
Human
Fan
Work Ethic
Ethic
Worked
Really
Choices
Hard
Actor
Amount
A long time ago, I learned not to go up to the boss and ask what's happening to my character. I haven't done that for 20 years, since I was on 'Days of Our Lives.'
Michael Easton
Time
Character
Long
Long Time
Our
Our Lives
Boss
Long Time Ago
Since
Days
Learned
Go
Years
Up
Done
Happening
Ask
Lives
Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
Michael Gambon
Character
Me
Personality
Own
Every
Character Actor
Variant
My Own
Part
Course
Real
Real Character
Just
Actor
Play
But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives.
Michael Gruber
Art
Character
You
People
Care
Relatives
Paradox
Would
About
Cry
Fake
Exist
Friends
Dies
Fiction
Them
Engage
Your
Who
Why
Basis
My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film or TV script based on prescriptions, on other peoples' ideas of what character should be.
Michael Hirst
Character
People
Writing
Nothing
Other
Way
Recoil
TV
About
Could
Absolutely
Instinct
Ideas
Talking
Dumber
Than
Script
Should
Film
Based
I just wanted to be a working character actor.
Michael Horse
Character
Character Actor
Just
Wanted
Working
Actor
No one has to be taught to trust in themselves. No one has to be taught that what you experience inside yourself is more authoritative than what comes to you externally, even if it comes from God. Since the Fall, it has been part of our character to look within ourselves.
Michael Horton
God
Character
You
Trust
Experience
Yourself
Fall
Our
Ourselves
Has-Been
Inside
More
No-One
Part
Since
Look
Within
Been
Than
Authoritative
Taught
Themselves
Even
My goal as an actor was just to be somebody very human. I'm not really interested in playing a character who is particularly cool and everything he does looks great and turns out great.
Michael Imperioli
Great
Character
Somebody
Everything
Out
He
Particularly
Looks
Does
Goal
Very
Human
Just
Interested
Really
Turns
Who
Cool
Actor
Playing
My work is distinct and definitive and specific, and hopefully it is so that every single character is different, and they are - but there's probably an underlying element that's me.
Michael Keaton
Work
Character
Me
Single
Every
Distinct
Definitive
Hopefully
Underlying
Different
Element
Specific
In terms of the parallels, I've never related less to a character than Riggan.
Michael Keaton
Character
Related
Parallels
Never
Terms
Than
Less
I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I got out of high school, then wrote the first Lincoln Perry novel when I was 19. It didn't sell, but I liked the character and I knew the world so I tried what was, in my mind, a sequel. Wrote that when I was 20, and that one made it.
Michael Koryta
Character
World
School
Mind
Made
Long
Finished
First
Before
Out
High
Tried
High School
More
Knew
Liked
Wrote
Around
Got
Lincoln
Perry
Sell
Then
Pages
Sequel
Novel
I think as an actor... I don't like to compare a character to anybody else, just because I respect other people's work, and I want that character to have his own identity.
Michael Mando
Work
Character
Respect
People
Own
Think
Other
Else
Like
Identity
Because
His
Just
Anybody
Anybody Else
Just Because
Want
Compare
Actor
I try and find a way to love every character I play.
Michael McKean
Love
Character
Try
Every
Way
Find
To Love
Play
When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.
Michael Palmer
Character
You
Type
Find
He
Like
Dead
Just
Letters
Four
Every character when born is a stereotype.
Michael Patrick King
Character
Every
Born
Stereotype
I feel really comfortable with going for the reality of the drama, but I'm not much for the comedy of it. You have to make people laugh, or you have to be true to the character in such a way that makes people laugh. It's a whole different thing.
Michael Pena
Character
You
Reality
People
Comedy
Be True
Drama
Way
Laugh
True
Feel
Make
Comfortable
Makes
Going
Different
Much
Really
Such A Way
Whole
Different Thing
Thing
I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.
Michael Richards
Work
Character
Free
Onstage
Push
Envelope
Uncontrolled
Performer
Spontaneous
Go
Lot
Very
Manner
Association
Groot is an awesome character.
Michael Rooker
Character
Awesome
When someone pitches a joke for a character that is just perfect, and you can imagine that actor reading that line at your table read or on the set, it's like the sound of a snap snapping into place.
Michael Schur
Character
You
Joke
Reading
Table
Someone
Perfect
Like
Read
Sound
Line
Snap
Pitches
Just
Place
Your
Actor
Imagine
Set
It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.
Michael Shanks
Character
Impossible
Affection
Having
Absolutely
True
Almost
Him
Without
Any
Play
You feel that your character is special. It's not your normal nine-to-five. You're not someone who goes home and lives a normal life.
Michael Socha
Life
Home
Character
You
Nine-To-Five
Someone
Feel
Normal
Normal Life
Goes
Your
Special
Who
Lives
I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.
Michael Stuhlbarg
Character
Character Actor
See
Someone
Idea
Between
Does
Difference
Really
Actor
Tarzan is such a great character in that he's very innocent and wide-eyed about the world, yet he's so powerful and capable. It's fun to play those qualities simultaneously in the same person.
Michael T. Weiss
Great
Character
World
Innocent
Those
About
He
Powerful
Simultaneously
Qualities
Very
Person
Tarzan
Same
Capable
Fun
Play
I don't want to get pigeon-holed into a certain kind of character. I love action roles and the hero, but I want to keep trying something new.
Michael Trucco
Love
Character
Hero
Action
Kind
Something
Something New
New
Pigeon-Holed
Get
Roles
Trying
Want
Certain
Keep
My father and mother are both very smart people and I always felt I was a little short of the mark. So I would compensate with a character like Logan Cale. He's wearing glasses, he's in a wheelchair, he's a computer genius. He's very far away from who I am, but I really wanted to play roles where I'd be taken seriously.
Michael Weatherly
Character
People
Genius
Glasses
Smart
Mother
Seriously
Father
Mark
Would
Wearing
Both
Computer
He
Taken
Smart People
Like
Felt
Always
Am
Very
Roles
Wheelchair
Short
Where
Wanted
Little
Far
Far Away
Really
Who
Away
Play
Compensate
You have to be careful so you don't make your character dull and predictable. Sometimes you have to bend the script a little... The bad guys are mostly the same on the paper... A bad guy wouldn't think of himself as bad.
Michael Wincott
Character
You
Sometimes
Think
Bend
Paper
Bad
Be Careful
Bad Guy
Bad Guys
Guy
Guys
Make
Mostly
Himself
Dull
Same
Predictable
Script
Little
Your
Careful
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