I've been on top longer and I am younger. I'm just better..

In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded..

I need someone who always wants more out of life. Like me - I'm just that way..

You have this certain about of responsibility to play a fictitious character and you have a script that's guiding you and the other information of th….

The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimenta….

Allow yourself to see what you don’t allow yourself to see..

This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting ch….

I don't live to work; I work to live..

I sense a kind of fear of writing black or Asian characters from non-ethnic writers, who perhaps feel that they don't know the culture and therefore ….

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time..

Better to be disliked than pitied..

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength..

This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - ….

For me, playing a really bad character is about figuring out what brought the person to where we need him..

Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical.

To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict..

People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear..

Even in the tragedies, Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocra….

Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know….

The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with whic….

I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about your friends, a plot e….