Charisma Carpenter Quotes

All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.

I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.

I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

It's very, very important to me, no matter who the person is, to play that person with the utmost degree of truth that I'm able to bring. But playing a character like Jack Sparrow or Willy Wonka, that requires nothing but a degree of responsibility to the intent of the story - responsibility to the film-maker to deliver the goods.

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.

I go by the content of the script and not the length of the role.

In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him. He was a performance artist in a way.

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

I just try not to look at any role as a comedic role or a dramatic role. I just try to stay in the movie I'm in.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.

How I'm portrayed in films has more to do with the filmmaking and what they need in the story than anything else. I'm the same person I've always been, I just get used in different ways according to the filmmakers' needs - which is fine with me; it makes for great films.

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.

I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in the heart. I want to be able to get people to cry or make people angry or sad.

They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.