You have to find out how to become the character..
I wrote the show West Wing for the two years before and the two years after 9/11. Suddenly everyone in the world had been through something that our ….
Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape to help you establish the emoti….
I always thought what an interesting idea because almost everybody's fascinated by the perpetrator of a crime; very few people study what happens to ….
It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible..
I just want to portray a very honest character that displays traits that people can truly relate to and can help them - the audience and myself becau….
Your talent will open the door but only your character can keep you there..
I think that those of us who are ordinary disappear easily into the backdrop of life and we take things for granted. We often wake up in our lives an….
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do..
You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it..
I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something th….
I have been extremely proactive in putting myself up for characters that may have been meant to specifically be Caucasian. You bring an interesting a….
The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of ….
My writing isn't actually guided by issues. I know it seems that way, but I don't sit down and think, Oh, there's this issue I'm bothered about. I on….
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious..
Character, character, character. First, second and third ... we were pretty rusty initially. When you have a break for a few weeks you get a bit of r….
We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned..
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these ….
I've never played a character where I've had so much fun on the physical end. I don't want to say I like it too much but it's fun having a gun on you….
I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it..
And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckl….