Charles Dance Quotes

There's no particular role that comes to mind that I'd like to take on, but for me, it's about playing interesting characters and not just two-dimensional ones.

I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.

The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.

Even when I'm reading a script where I'm supposed to be looking at the lead role, I'll find myself gravitating toward some small weirdo in a few scenes instead. I'm very instinctive like that and I love the challenge of not having a lot of time to create someone who feels real.

To me, the struggle is to try to make a less-well-written or less-well-rounded character and find who they are. If you really get it, and it's all on the page, then it's really just gonna pop out at you.

For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.

These people I play are not usually wish-fulfillment characters.

Vijay Sethupathi looks a film as a film. He never looks at what kind image he is going to get out of the character.

A lot of times, scripts are written so the character is all one way. Even with 'Bringing Out the Dead,' the character was written a little more generic.

People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him.

Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard.

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.

When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.

Every character is challenging because, at the end of the day, you have to make something out of it.

My character should not be ordinary, cliched, and if I feel that it's difficult to do this character, I take up that challenge to get into his character.

I believe the audience likes to see well-defined characters on screen than just larger-than-life heroes.

I think all interesting characters have some kind of a complex.

It's always fun to layer a character, to make the character a little bit more dynamic than it is on paper.

There is nothing like being able to develop a three-dimensional character over a long period of time. Sometimes you aren't able to fully portray a character because you only have a couple of scenes to do it in, and you don't get the full life and background of that character.

Specifically, we talked about making the character of the prince not so charming, at least in the beginning, and I'm playing around with the preconceptions attached to a character. That's really what intrigued me as well because I thought it would be fun to do it.

But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.