Sometimes I will read the whole script just to see what my character is doing, but I won't touch a script that I'm not in because it's just so much m….
Multiple characters make it more difficult to showcase each character..
I don't have very complete scripts for my films. I have a general outline and a character in my mind, and I make no notes until I find the character ….
As an actor, you don't want to know the beginning and end to your character's arc. It makes it more fun. You're not playing the end. You're playing i….
As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience. I played a character on Oz and people still approach me in the streets today..
Women are often pushed into the idea that they write softer, more character-driven jokes..
FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose….
It's really nice when you can sit down with somebody and just talk to them, and talk about your ideas and what you think the character is, and they r….
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters, as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on t….
You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters..
If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six charac….
The toughest part of acting is never a single thing. It's more like a whole character. I find film really difficult - trying to make it feel like a c….
Incredibly deep research combines with the talents of a fine historian and writer to produce superb narrative history. The true character and relatio….
We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must ma….
I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm….
The highest point of Christian experience is to press forward. It is a distinguishing trait in the character of every good man that he grows in grace….
I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead o….
When you play a character, you bring yourself into the character. You get a chance to shine and show your translation for the character and her state….
Even Christoph Waltz's character, Colonel Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds', I never judged him..
Batman is not a very interesting character. For any actor. There is simply not much to play. I think Michael Keaton did it the best, and I wish good ….
When you start writing, you have your characters on a metaphorical paved road, and as they go down it, all these other roads become available that th….