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When I get the possibility of using a character like Bruce Wayne or Dick Grayson, I try and think about what's most exciting or interesting about them as a person, so I try and think what they are at their core, or what piece of their psychology do I gravitate toward that I respect, and I'm excited by it when I read books about them.
Scott Snyder
Character
Respect
Try
Think
Books
Wayne
Possibility
About
Bruce
Excited
Exciting
Toward
Like
Most
Piece
Read
Person
Get
Psychology
Interesting
Them
Using
Gravitate
Core
There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character.
Scott Speedman
Character
Me
Listening
Challenge
Sense
Nothing
Worse
About
Guys
Like
Talk
Boy
Dudes
Lot
Official
Just
Process
Mean
Actor
Play
Played
I tend to start with a kernel, a vague concept, and just begin to write things down - notes about a character, lines of dialogue, descriptive passages about a place. One idea fires another. I do that for about a year. By then there's a story, and I'll go on to a complete first draft that sews many of those ragtag pieces together.
Scott Turow
Character
Together
First
Year
Down
Complete
Those
About
About A Year
Tend
Write
Fires
Idea
Concept
Pieces
Another
Passages
Dialogue
Go
Lines
Begin
Just
Story
Place
Notes
Then
Many
Descriptive
Things
Start
Draft
Kernel
Vague
I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.
Sean Bean
Work
Time
Day
Character
Me
Thoughts
End Of The Day
Perspective
Think
Too
Else
Unnecessary
Carry
Something
Something Else
Excess
Put
Baggage
Sort
Around
Exhausting
Leave
End
Anything
Leisure
Leisure Time
Your
Things
Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease.
Sean Bean
Good
Character
Confidence
Fight
Will
Soldier
Bit
Ease
Complex
Complex Character
Battlefield
Favorite
Good Soldier
He
Aristocratic
Unsure
Knows
Because
Always
His
Off
Very
Upbringing
Role
Officers
Prejudice
Full
Working-Class
Ill
Rough
Played
Shy
In theatre, once you've got the character and you've got things together, you can relax into it. Film has a different feel - you don't get that through line of not stopping. Theatre is like a snowball gathering momentum and getting bigger, whereas in film, it's a bit stop and start - but you do tend to adjust to that quite easily.
Sean Bean
Character
You
Together
Theatre
Relax
Gathering
Once
Bit
Easily
Adjust
Tend
Through
Feel
Like
Got
Line
Get
Snowball
Getting
Quite
Stop
Stopping
Different
Whereas
Bigger
Momentum
Film
Things
Start
I wouldn't say I'm a Method actor, but I do try to focus very deeply on what character I'm playing, and everything else goes out the window. I forget about everything. I try to get everything else out of my head.
Sean Bean
Character
Try
Focus
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Say
Out
Window
About
Head
Method
Method Actor
Very
Forget
Get
Goes
Actor
Deeply
Playing
I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points.
Sean Connery
Good
Character
You
Care
Long
Films
About
Points
Had
Him
Cannot
Happens
Interest
Connected
Bond
I think you need people of principle, of character, that are leaders, that take stands on important tough issues that will affect the future of this country.
Sean Hannity
Future
Character
You
People
Will
Tough
Country
Important
Think
Take
Leaders
Principle
Issues
Affect
Stands
Need
When you see me play Jack, I want you to believe that that's a gay character.
Sean Hayes
Character
Me
Gay
You
Believe
See
Jack
Want
Play
From what I've understood, it's an entirely different world, and it's a tough world to get your foot in the door, but I've always wanted to be a voice of a Disney character.
Sean Maher
Character
World
Tough
Entirely
Voice
Foot
Always
Understood
Get
Different
Door
Wanted
Disney
Your
Different World
I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with.
Sean Penn
Character
Degree
Energy
Live
Every
Some
True
Rhythm
Worked
Actor
There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort.
Sean Penn
Strength
Character
People
Never
Comfort
Experienced
Who
Large
The character of Jim 'The Anvil' Neidhart added so much. He was solid in the ring too, really good. His role in the Hart Foundation - he was great. He was a really good, solid power guy that could move in there, too.
Sean Waltman
Good
Great
Character
Power
Too
Added
Jim
Solid
Hart
Ring
Guy
Could
He
His
Role
Anvil
Move
Much
Really
Foundation
Maybe I'll just become a cartoon character because there's nothing left for me to do in an R-rated comedy.
Seann William Scott
Character
Me
Comedy
Become
Nothing
Cartoon
Cartoon Character
Because
Left
Maybe
Just
To me, there was something moving about the idea of telling the story of a lady who is, in a way, a forgotten character - someone who would normally be a secondary role in a movie.
Sebastian Lelio
Character
Me
Secondary
Way
Telling
Would
About
Someone
Something
Idea
Normally
Role
Forgotten
Lady
Movie
Story
Moving
Who
The idea behind 'Gloria' was to take a secondary character - the aunt, the mother - and stay with her as she becomes our protagonist.
Sebastian Lelio
Character
Mother
Secondary
Our
Stay
Take
Idea
Protagonist
She
Becomes
Aunt
Behind
Her
I'm interested in the intersection of character and actor.
Sebastian Lelio
Character
Interested
Actor
Intersection
In the case of 'Fantastic Woman,' I wanted to make it a more complex animal than just a 'cause' film. Even though I was sympathizing with the character's struggle, I didn't want to be trapped at that level - it's important, but it can be quite basic.
Sebastian Lelio
Character
Struggle
Woman
Animal
Cause
Important
Trapped
Complex
Though
Case
More
Make
Than
Quite
Just
Want
Wanted
Fantastic
Even
Film
Basic
Level
You can't judge a character, and you're never going to always play characters that are morally sound or know right from wrong.
Sebastian Stan
Character
You
Judge
Characters
Morally
Never
Wrong
Know
Always
Sound
Going
Play
Right
Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.
Sergio Aragones
Character
You
Action
Once
Go
Established
Where
Elaborate
Expressions
Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.
Sergio Aragones
Character
You
Sometimes
Design
Drawing
Solution
Composition
Equilibrium
Middle
Gag
Which
Placing
Then
Working
Start
Do you know how hard it is to play a character where you're always in heels? Oh, my goodness!
Serinda Swan
Character
You
Goodness
Do You Know
Know
Always
How
Oh
Where
Heels
Hard
Play
'Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.
Seth Gabel
Time
Character
Man
First
Young
Could
Make
First Time
Boy
Up
Fringe
Being
Being A Man
Young Man
Transition
Realized
Ever
Actually
A favorite film of mine is 'Office Space' and I love 'The Hangover.' That is a really good comedy from character in that film, and that is true of 'Office Space' too.
Seth Gordon
Love
Good
Character
Comedy
Space
Too
Mine
Favorite
True
Office
Hangover
Really
Film
I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.
Seth Gordon
Character
Comedy
Approach
High
Individuals
Like
Very
Story
Stakes
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