Taron Egerton quote: "The endless teen franchises that come out of Hollywood... more often than not, the central character doesn't have any discernible character traits. They're just the young, good-looking guy who goes on this journey. They're always played by fantastic young actors, but ultimately, they're not very interesting characters."

Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They'r...
MATTHEW LILLARD

A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start t...
MICHAEL CAINE

It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're wri...
RACHEL WEISZ

Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they'...
KENNETH BRANAGH

I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate televis...
JESSE TYLER FERGUSON

I think the problem with people, as they start to mature, they say, 'Rap is a young man's ga...
JAY-Z

There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're intere...
ELLEN POMPEO

A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to;...
WALTER KIRN

A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never ...
BILL SKARSGARD

I think that, often, actors represent what they're not. You get people who define the aristocrac...
COLIN FIRTH

My character's kind of grown up with Katniss. The beginning of the story, they're more or le...
LIAM HEMSWORTH

Some of my acting heroes have built careers on playing characters who do horrendous things - they...
REBECCA HALL

Interviewing someone is very similar to preparing a character, isn't it? You're just asking ...
FELICITY JONES

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn&...
PETER O'TOOLE

My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
CARL HIAASEN

When lawmakers start to make laws that hurt single women, often the women that they're hurting t...
REBECCA TRAISTER

All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female character...
OPHELIA LOVIBOND

Good actors are always looking for props. They're looking for behavior. It makes it a lot easier...
PETER FALK

When young women get called bossy, it's often because they're trying to exercise power witho...
ADAM GRANT

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. ...
LUIS WALTER ALVAREZ

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking fo...
KEN ROBINSON

All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors...
RYAN GOSLING

I was watching the last season of 'Mad Men,' and they're now so in their characters and ...
JAMES FRAIN

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're idea...
ADAM SAVAGE

My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They...
EVANNA LYNCH

It's always the most fun to play that guy who, like, doesn't have a filter - that really spe...
DAVID WALTON

Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
LAURA LINNEY

Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so...
EDWARD HERRMANN

You're always looking for good scripts and when they're not always forthcoming you go mad.
JONNY LEE MILLER

As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what peopl...
FREDDIE HIGHMORE

You know, the best-laid plans of mice and men... I like playing bad guys, and I don't have a pro...
TOBIN BELL

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.
DAVE EGGERS

I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They...
CAMERON MATHISON

Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not...
QUINCY JONES

I think a lot of people like hidden-camera shows where they think they're spying on somebody who...
BETTY WHITE

When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
ORLANDO BLOOM

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
KATE BECKINSALE

No one goes through life thinking that they're the best friend of the lead character.
LAURA CARMICHAEL

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH

There's a freshness to the approach of teen chefs. They're lighthearted, and they're not...
ALEX GUARNASCHELLI

Our kids are not Jewish, and they're not Catholic. They're not Episcopalian. They're not...
RHEA PERLMAN

Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if ...
DAVID BAILEY

Unlike me, a lot of child actors are very short, which is why they work. So when they're 15 they...
CYNTHIA NIXON

So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they'...
HELEN MCCRORY

I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about ha...
JOHN HUGHES

Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'...
ZACH WOODS

When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out...
NEIL YOUNG

Characters actors don't usually get noticed until they're about 38 or so.
LARRY DRAKE

I like my hands. They're certainly scarred up, but they're wormy. They're knuckly. They&...
HILARIE BURTON

I don't like to sing things that just sound like they're going straight down the tubes, and ...
JAKOB DYLAN

Nick's just from this very Norman Rockwell-ish family. They're very 'American Gothic,...
MEGAN MULLALLY

I'm one of those actors who's going to have to create a space for themselves. It's very ...
WENTWORTH MILLER

And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters....
BRIAN DE PALMA

The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not oft...
CASEY AFFLECK

It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON

I enjoyed my upbringing, my siblings did, we're polite, we're respectful, but at the end of ...
TINIE TEMPAH

L. A. is crazy. The women all look the same now. That thing with the cheeks. Like Madonna. Who do th...
SOFIA VERGARA

I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are ...
RACHEL WEISZ

I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they&#...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN

I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the ...
RICK PERRY

Gray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when th...
SEAN PARKER

Sometimes when you're playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other la...
IRRFAN KHAN

Who doesn't like dolphins? They're like puppies.
AUSTIN STOWELL

I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't k...
SAMANTHA MORTON

Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you...
KYLE MACLACHLAN

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like ac...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

If you ever see young artists, and they're not sounding good, they sound good. They're good ...
THE WEEKND

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, becaus...
COLIN POWELL

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scie...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that a...
JOHN MALKOVICH

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
ABEL FERRARA

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour...
WENDY COPE

I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy...
JUNOT DIAZ

The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They...
NICK HANAUER

There are things you do that just come natural, and sometimes those are amazingly in synch, and some...
TOMMY LEE

I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older wome...
TAYE DIGGS

When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.
DAVE GROHL

I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they&...
DAVID O. RUSSELL

When you're a dweeb, when you're really young, it stands out. But as everybody gets older an...
CATHERINE JINKS

Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where t...
V. E. SCHWAB

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offere...
MATT DAMON

In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes a...
BILL MURRAY

I saw women that were repressed. When they're in classes with young men, they shut up all the ti...
MARY DALY

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight...
LAURENCE OLIVIER

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your ...
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR.

Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest th...
MARIA BARTIROMO

A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're...
SANDRA OH

The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're ...
NAZANIN BONIADI

I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these author...
GIA COPPOLA

You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young p...
CHARLIE TROTTER

I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a fil...
MALIN AKERMAN

You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really r...
ANNA KENDRICK

I grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They're all artists; ...
DAKOTA JOHNSON

What's fun about chefs is that they're big guys, often, and they might not look like the mos...
JON FAVREAU

I like being able to play women that are growing or aren't easy to love. Maybe they are really l...
TAYLOUR PAIGE

I can't really make fun of zombies. They're not liars. They're not cheats.
GEORGE A. ROMERO

I don't find any presidents all that sexy. They're not very rock'n'roll.
CARMEN ELECTRA

You can always tell a person's real character and personhood by those who closely surround him, ...
CHUCK NORRIS

I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between t...
LUSIA STRUS

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