To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something abo….
I like flawed characters very much. A lot of times I get asked to do parts that are kind of small but key - three-scene roles that are three kick-ass….
The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town..
[Hollywood] studios are handing out money to make independent films now, but they all want the same thing. They want the style and the deadpan delive….
Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, ….
I try to have all my characters have a sense of humor. To me the most interesting thing is a desperate character. I think desperation is funny..
The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to the end of….
My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just….
What I enjoy most are those times when I get an idea and it just flows - the words coming so fast that I'm scribbling to keep up with my characters. ….
Each form of the acting is different. I think it keeps your mind active. TV, film and theater are different disciplines, as are independent films, op….
One can acquire everything in solitude except character..
I've always said that with a lot of the horror franchises that I've started, it's like directing a pilot. I come in, I direct the first movie and all….
In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy….
I like Edward G. Robinson - he started as a character actor and became a lead, which is probably why I like him..
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should al….
One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth. As someone who is proud to ha….
Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them..
McCain was introduced at the convention last night by his wife -- I won't say 'trophy wife' -- but she did $300,000 worth of clothes and jewelry on, ….
Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, Just about everything you do..
By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else..
I would like to think that Im more different from my character than I am..