Top 125 Different Characters Quotes

As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story – to tackle different characters with different issues.

I have been through and seen so many dramas and traumas and been in so many situations that I can probably interpret a few different characters.

I want as much as I can to try and explore different roles and different characters; that’s important to me to get involved in as many different parts as I can.

In many films, as many different characters, I’ve killed many different people.

I’m quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art – sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I’ve been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.

‘Saturday Night Live’ is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.

I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It’s all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

Different characters help you grow in cinema.

When you’re shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you’re playing, really.

I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.

‘Orphan Black’ allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters – to trust characters and hate other characters – but it doesn’t tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That’s the most exciting storytelling, in my book.

I’m always going to be working on my English, and I’m always going to work on my English so that I can do different characters from different nationalities.

If you look at me in ‘Ride Along,’ even though I’m playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.

I want to be remembered as the different characters I have portrayed.

My ability to bring different characters to life is what has helped me advance in my career, and I would say as far as looks are concerned, well, I suppose that would be the icing on the cake, but acting comes first and foremost.

It may seem that I am doing films in different languages, which of course I am, but more importantly, I am performing different characters and every character has so much to teach. It makes me happy that I am associated with so many film industries.

I like to play different characters.

Getting to meet people that I’ve admired my entire life, and getting to meet them in such a way where they’re coming in to play completely different characters than I had ever seen them do is just wonderful.

My favorite part about working in theater is the rehearsal process. I absolutely love the rehearsal process. Working out the characters, figuring the character out, and the relationships between the different characters. I love all of that, which, unfortunately in film, you get very little opportunity to have.

I came from the stage so it was a different kind of acting, or a different arena of acting, and I just loved to do it as a kid. It’s really gratifying to get to create these different characters and to get to create different voices and to get to wear different clothes.

I think a natural evolution for me would be to try to transfer over into the film and TV world and start playing different characters. Hopefully, that way, I can keep entertaining my fans that are fans of me, in different avenues and different spotlights. It’s a natural evolution.

I try to be cool with everybody, but sometimes, everybody just has different personalities, motives, and different characters.

I’ve done literally 100, 150 different characters.

I love playing different characters, and I would love to be playing different characters in movies or TV shows, instead of continuing my career with the WWE.

I was a very shy sort of person, and by acting different characters, I could immerse myself and make them do what, perhaps, I wouldn’t do.

I’ve learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it’s important to knock them down a peg.

I’m always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

I feel, as an actor, you should be in a position to mould yourself into different characters and should have the ability to change.

You have different characters in the dressing room. If you have a go at someone, someone might answer back, other people will take it and speak afterwards.

I want the chance to play very different characters, and I’ve always wanted to do more films.

At the end of the day I can’t change myself. It’s only different characters that I play. And in those it should not be me, Atul Kulkarni, it should be the character that is being played by Atul Kulkarni.

A lot of people just ask me about how I can do small budgets and big budgets, but many actors do both. I think the more self-destructive impulse I have is doing so many different characters.

In the early ’90s, I wrote a play called ‘Word of Mouth’ in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old boy who, through a series of diary entries, realizes that he’s gay.

In an ideal world, I would constantly be doing different characters in different worlds.

I was in a TV show called ‘Orrible’ with Johnny Vaughan, I did the last series of ‘Teachers’, I did two or three different characters on ‘The Bill’. Just stuff like that. The ‘Inbetweeners’ was the first thing that really took off.

I’ve always wanted to do a feature film, because, as a model, you have to play so many different characters.

I love playing different characters.

When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls – I’d be the crazy diva Barbie and she’d be the homeless Barbie.

As a young actor, I would be invited to the CBC radio drama department to do voices for different characters, and I found that I could do quite a few of them. I wasn’t a visual presence, and I found it easier to construct a voice from the written page.

It’s really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.

The whole novelty and challenge of playing twins is something that has kept things wonderfully fresh for me. Just the pure joy and freedom of being able to explore so many facets of not just one, but two, different characters at once is a very singular experience.

I think that’s the great thing about acting: you get to play different characters and enhance one part of yourself to really bring that out and create a new person.

I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That’s where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

Shakespeare was the thing that started me off on that train, you know, and every one of his plays. There are so many different characters, and the wonderful thing about being in an all-girls school was I got to play them all, you know. So I got to play Mercutio and Oberon and Malvolio – it was great.

One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

I never know what’s going to happen or what opportunities are going to be given to me. I’ve found with the opportunities that I’ve been given have made it possible for me to explore different characters and exciting stories.

The film I do doesn’t have to be a film that only my kids can watch. My kids will watch films, but I will decide what they watch and not. My aim is to play different characters and not be stuck in a mould. Just because you are a mom and a wife doesn’t meant you have to play those roles, even in films.

No, there isn’t a particular type of genre that I’m drawn to. I’m more drawn to the possibility of creating different characters, or being able to go from one genre to the other and to show that I could do it, that I could be good at it.

As far as playing different characters within the character, I think that’s fun. Very rarely, on TV, do you get to do that on such a regular basis.

To play different characters on a TV show where you’re working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it’s so ridiculously intense.

Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.

I prefer to do cable TV because it allows you the time to do other things. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach.

What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I’m not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen.