Character Accuracy Quotes

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

Playing a real-life character is definitely a lot more responsibility than one that is fictionalized.

To portray a real-life character is the toughest job for an actor because one never knows which direction to flow.

Providing accurate portrayals of characters is something I want to pay ample attention to.

When you take on the idea of playing someone like Jimmy Bulger, it's a radically different process because you're going into make-up. The only way you can do it is to come out of make-up looking like the guy. If you don't look like the guy, it's going to bug you, all day.

I feel character description from a book can mislead you and actually make you fall off course when you're representing a character using a script.

If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.

I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.

Providing accurate portrayals of characters is something I want to pay ample attention to. If I don’t stick to that thought, then we’d have to lower the quality or break the balance of the game. Something that goes way off spec could break the entire game.