I once had an editor advise me, as I was revising one of my early novels, to add more characters. I played around with the idea. As soon as I'd decid….
In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying..
Respect your characters, even the minor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story; it is worth thinking about wha….
I feel very fortunate to be an actor on a network whose tag line is Characters Welcome and not Procedurals Welcome..
I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe..
Tom Stafford was an odd character, you know - a brilliant guy. He looked weird and I think he took a really defensive attitude about being a hunchbac….
I think USA has a great handle on programming and content. They know their viewers and they know what works... Character driven programming!.
I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me..
I'm a lurid character!.
Brands are useful ways of short-handing practically anything - look at the way Tom Wolfe first used brand name lists to sharpen up a character and a ….
I don't want to be a stereotype; I want a character that's aspirational..
There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logicall….
For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant wr….
I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean….
The most fun part for an actor is the writing and the story and the character. That's very fulfilling..
The design is a really flat primary color with all sorts of abstract geometric shapes, just implying something. And then you'd have your characters r….
If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movemen….
I never like to judge the character. I just have to leave my feelings of pity, or fear, about a character - whatever I feel towards the character, I ….
Everyone always says, Does it bother you that Italians are always portrayed as Mafia characters? No, it doesn't bother me. First of all, not everybod….
Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franc….
Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way peo….