Just being the first person to bring the character to life is really fun and exciting..
When I look at life I try to be as agnostic and unmetaphysical as possible. So I have to admit that, most probably, we do not have a fate. But I thin….
I learned a lesson that I keep learning over and over, and that is that the most fun is to watch our main characters interact with each other. The mo….
In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed..
You're always learning as an actor... anything you do is a learning experience. It's the same whether you're doing film or TV, you have to do the par….
I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an id….
I've always found that it's such an emotional experience, trying to find the good parts of a bad character or the bad parts of a good character, and ….
I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it..
I've always been attracted to characters that were interesting to me, and different..
I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character ….
Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the ….
Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their ch….
My favorite new character isn't new, but more fleshed out - Gadd, the alekeep at the Tunnel. He's got him some teeth and tats. His history is hinted ….
Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces ….
My problem has been with purely digital films. I feel the danger there is that the kind of short-cuts you end up having to take are the ones that are….
Self-control is the only possible road to character development.
Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point ….
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications..
A company that was I think the one I learned the most from in Wall Street 2, just in terms of my own character in and the kind of firm he worked in, ….
You want everyone to be a full character. No one is just evil, or very few people are, hopefully. They're characters, so you want to flush them out. ….
I don't set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when I'm introduced to them, I fol….