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I never really like the characters I play. I only come to love them afterwards.

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I like characters with problems. I like to understand them... To play alcoholics, fetishists, strange girls, you have to dig deep within yourself. It's 'elsewhere' that interests me.

Marie Trintignant

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You have to like the characters you play.

Ted McGinley

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I love playing characters who are multilayered and multidimensional and have a darkness to them, which makes them more realistic and more fun to play.

Katee Sackhoff

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I play characters, and I try to play them in a manner that's appropriate to the script. Physical movement and vitality of language is part of character.

Tommy Lee Jones

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I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

Jon Heder

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I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

Jacki Weaver

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And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

Brittany Murphy

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There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.

Salma Hayek

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I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.

Jonah Hill

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Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

Edward Hoagland

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There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for the most part, my characters go along with it. I write intense character sketches and long, play-like conversations between me and them, but they stay out of the book writing itself.

Sarah MacLean

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A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!

Ashton Kutcher

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I've been trying to make a difference as an actor. I want to play characters that move people, have them look at their lives differently, or give them an escape.

Hill Harper

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It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You're constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.

Jamie Dornan

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I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.

Katey Sagal

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I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.

Julie Kagawa

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I never, never lend any of my own clothes for parts any more because you lose your clothes; they become the characters' clothes, and you can never wear them again.

Hannah Murray

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The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.

Frances O'Connor

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