Tom Hiddleston Quotes

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.'

I think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly.

As an actor, I would call it a role where you get to stretch out a bit.

You get to know a character that you play on-stage in a pretty profound way over a length of time. I don't want to sound highfalutin and say you become the character, you just start bringing more and more of yourself to the part until the character and actor, it's hard to tell them apart. It's some weird amalgam. In film, because of the period of time, I don't know that you ever get that deep into it.

I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.

You have to find something you relate to in every character.

As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

It depends on the scripts and the character and just everybody involved, the other actors and directors. It's just a gut feeling when you find something, you're like, 'Yes, I want to sink my teeth into that.'

Get inside her head. Get inside any character's head and ask what they want in this scene. And if you work from the perspective of what they want, there's not going to be any wrong answer. There's going to be some boring answers, but none of them are going to be wrong. As long as she has agency, then you're on the right track.

I had a very low voice for the character in the show. I said, "That's not actually my voice. That's the character's voice." I'm being such an actor.

If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.

I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy comes through the character.

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

It is the task of the scenarist to invent little pieces of business that are so characteristic and give so deep an insight into his creatures, that their personalities clearly and organically unfold before the eyes of the audience so that the latter feel that the actions of these people are contingent upon their characters, that there exists some kind of a logical fate, and that nothing is left to mere accident or coincidence.

The lack of predictability with television is something that's constantly changing what your perception of who you think your character is.

If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.

For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play.

What interests me when I'm writing is being able to crawl into a character's head and speak from his or her mouth. It's not pulling the strings on a marionette, it's not playing ventriloquist, and it's not mimicry. It's about inhabiting a character, and, at the same time, being totally unaware of what you've become.

One particular night I was at the theater. I was not scouting for a project, but I was touched by this play by Évelyne de la Chenelière. I was touched by the character. I thought it was a rich character that could be rich enough for a movie.

One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models

You can never know enough about your characters

Strength of character is already written. What we bring, as an actor, is an almost 3D-ness to it.

We as actors doubt up until the last minute that we can be this person. So everything matters, the more work you do, you get in touch with who the character is.

Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.