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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.

I think you have to draw from any character and bring it to yourself as much as possible.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character.

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are.

One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what they do.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

Character is the starting point from which we go on. When I say a man has character, I mean that when you go to that man and say, 'What are the facts in this case?' he will tell you the truth, justly, truly, and wisely as he knows, with the minimum of exhibitionism and the maximum of devotion to the common cause.

I can always see something of myself in the characters I play.