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Michael Fassbender Quotes about Character

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Trying to identify and understand, as opposed to judging, is very important for me, in approaching characters.

Trying to identify and understand, as opposed to judging, is very important for me, in approaching characters.

Michael Fassbender
Character, Judging, Important
"Michael Fassbender Talks A DANGEROUS METHOD, ROBOCOP, and AT SWIM-TWO BIRDS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 25, 2011.

If you're dealing with a character that actually exists, there's an awful lot of information there. So, you can put together, from the information, motivations, insecurities, reactions. Where does that seed get born, if you like?... What I do is put that together.

Michael Fassbender
Motivation, Character, Insecurity
"Michael Fassbender Talks SHAME, A DANGEROUS METHOD and the X-MEN: FIRST CLASS Sequel". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 21, 2011.

Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing.

Michael Fassbender
Break Up, Breakup, Character

Some actors might just do one thing, and another actor does another thing. I do an awful lot of preparation with the script, really. What I do is repeat the script, over and over and over again. Through that, it's almost like it seeps into my enamel. I'm reading all the characters, as well as my own. That is where the bulk of my preparation goes into.

Michael Fassbender
Reading, Character, Preparation
"Michael Fassbender Talks Haywire, Twelve Years a Slave, Prometheus, and X-men: First Class Sequel". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 17, 2012.

Sometimes if I stick in a character too much I feel like I might start to get blinkered, because I'm making my decisions too definite.

Michael Fassbender
Character, Decision, Might
"Michael Fassbender Talks PROMETHEUS, Ridley Scott, Viral Advertising, TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE, Possible PROMETHEUS Sequels, More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 31, 2012.

The actors I looked up to when I was a teenager, they all just disappeared into different characters.

Michael Fassbender
Teenager, Character, Different
"Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender on their relationship, onscreen and off". Interview with Joe McGovern, ew.com. August 26, 2016.

Nowadays, especially in big commercial films it's much easier for the audience, and they tend to get spoonfed. It's much more interesting to me, people leave the theater and they start asking themselves questions and find their own moral compass about what these characters have been doing.

Michael Fassbender
Character, People, Interesting
"January Jones, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Kevin Bacon, Zoë Kravitz, Rose Byrne & Lucas Till Talk X-MEN: FIRST CLASS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. June 1, 2011.

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