Real-Life Character Quotes

The way I approach acting when there's a real life character, it's sort of like a Venn diagram. What I come up with is some amalgam of the two of us.

It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

It's a great responsibility playing a real-life character because the person has reached a certain position after undergoing a lot of things.

I think, for every actor, the most challenging part of playing a character, specially a real-life character, is to convince yourself that you are the character.

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

There is a sense of responsibility when you play a real-life character because there are people who will see your work, make comparisons, and judge you. They have all the rights to do that because they know the real person. They might have seen that person also.

I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My character's based on the life of a guy named Craig Bromell who was a cop for 12 years and then became head of the police association, so basically the president of the union for 85,000 cops.

When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great 'cause you're not pretending to make up some silly thing.

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

Playing a real-life character is a challenge and a huge responsibility.

Playing somebody who's still alive is very interesting.

It's one thing to play a character that's fictitious - it's quite another to play somebody that is alive and well.

The roles that I always get attracted to are roles where the material is based on an actual person.

It's challenging to play a real-life character because you know that it existed in the history and you have certain parameters to follow and stay within.

I've done a lot of movies based on real people, real situations, non-fiction books, magazine articles, life rights.

Obviously, as an actor, when you re playing a real person, it is an extra challenge.