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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
I'm an actress. You can hide behind your character when you're acting - you're not being yourself.
Before the film begins shooting, in your head, you need to be the character. You have to convince yourself somehow.
There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.
You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.
If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.
I think the key to the longevity is being able to reinvent yourself and to adopt and incorporate different things into your character.
What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.
As an actor, you have to be able to put yourself into the character since your job is literally making the character and the situation he is in believable.
The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.
The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?
When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as many different avenues as you can in order to make it a fully wounded character.
Your character has to be an extension of yourself, and you got to be comfortable in it. Otherwise, people are going to see right through it. They're going to see that you're acting or that you're playing wrestling.
I think that if you get too close to the character, if you do too much historical research, you may find yourself defending your view of a character against the author's view, and I think that's terribly dangerous.
Encourage your kids to be creative. When you see them tracing a character from TV or a comic, say something like, 'That's nice. Now how about you create a character yourself?' Keep kids curious and excited about creating.
I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy to like. He's not easy to like. It forces you to involve yourself with what's going on.
The main thing is the ability to control your instrument, which, in the actor, is yourself. Look the way you want the character to look. Sound the way you want the character to sound. Once you've trained the instrument to do what you want, you're in control, and you're free.