In Jarasandha,' I can relate to my character pretty well, considering it is about a progressive and smart girl. She is a small time model, who is quite forward in her thinking.

If you're doing television, you get to be a character for a long time, and the cast around you becomes like family. You get attached to playing that one character, and it's hard leaving them behind.

I had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's voice. That was a great voiceover; it really internalized the Martin Sheen character, who was essentially fairly low key and didn't say a lot during the whole movie. But he thought a lot, so I always thought that was really great.

I've won fair-play prizes, but that's just my nature, my character. This is who I am, and I do not feel the need to hide the real me.

As a character actor, you have to understand that it's not about you. You have to remember it's about someone else's life. And your character is just passing through.

Sometimes every single element of a character is a torturous discovery.

We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.

I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.

I've always said that my greatest crises are my greatest opportunities to prove my own character to myself.

You just have to play the character.

You really have to take your time; you have to know your character and your scene. The line you are about to say comes from the moment right before. It's not what's said, it's what is in between the spaces, it's what's in between the lines; that is the most important to play.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

I get the feeling that audiences have become mature and they understand that not every character is in black or white. There can be grey shades to it.

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.

I appreciate being known as 'best character' rather than as the 'best bad guy.'

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy.

I've auditioned for animation stuff for a long time; that's a tough field to crack into. I don't think I have the strongest voice. I don't have a theater-trained voice or a radio voice, but I think I make good character choices.

I don't think I was bubbly in 'Oohalu Gusagusalade.' It was a real character.