It's like having children. You give birth, but then they take on a life of their own. That's what actors do for characters. It's pretty amazing..
Get inside her head. Get inside any character's head and ask what they want in this scene. And if you work from the perspective of what they want, th….
I always thought Cheers ended well. You always anticipate that the characters, theough they're leaving television, will somehow go on in another worl….
A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves..
Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are….
If you had a man when I was your friend and then we started hooking up and you broke up with your boyfriend, so now we're together and you have a new….
There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel..
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following co….
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing..
The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not su….
I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it wit….
In fact, the underlying principle of the baroque is the idea of transformation, of movement, and animals becoming man, and man becoming animals, and ….
Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behavio….
Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences of other people and abou….
I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is character building and I was like: My characte….
Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are. If you view leadership as a bag of manipulative tricks or charismatic beh….
I didn't know how to explain what I meant; sociopathy wasn't just being emotionally deaf, it was being emotionally mute, too. I felt like the charact….
Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship..
On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion..
Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperamen….
The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of th….