I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book. - Ian McKellen
It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose. - Ian McKellen
Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature. - Ian McKellen
The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo. - Ian McKellen
You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man. - Brad Pitt
When we place our dependence in God, we are unencumbered, and we have no worry. In fact, we may even be reckless, insofar as our part in the production is concerned. This confidence, this sureness of action, is both contagious and an aid to the perfect action. The rest is in the hands of God – and this is the same God, gentlemen, who has won all His battles up to now.
I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points. - Sean Connery
For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you. - Uma Thurman
It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people. - Uma Thurman
We ended up adding all these dimensions to Butters that I think were really great, ... He's always the kid that's worried his parents are going to ground him, but on the other hand he's got this other persona where he thinks he's this evil superhero, but even in that he does the most mundane things.
Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up. - Sylvester Stallone
Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film. - Sylvester Stallone
I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth. - Sylvester Stallone
The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You're going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do. - Sylvester Stallone
When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals. - Sylvester Stallone
I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s. - Rowan Atkinson
I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what’s fun about him is that he doesn’t care about anyone else, and it’s very difficult for a main character — a lead character — in a movie to not care about anybody else. - Rowan Atkinson
I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all. - Rowan Atkinson
In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all — you just say he’s a spy and he’s a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he’s not very good at his job. - Rowan Atkinson
I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful. - Anthony Hopkins
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