I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script..
Character makes its own destiny..
Who are you?" Ethan Nakamura. I have to kill you." ??.
You've never seen me dance, have you?.
Don't take no as a full stop, treat it like a comma..
Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you..
Things [only] exist once they are represented..
Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is manufactured; character is grown. Reputation is your photograph; There is a vast difference ….
I always listen to you. Except when I don't..
We are what we continually do..
I have to put my father over because he really taught me a lot, especially when it comes to out-of-the-ring psychology and how to react when you're a….
In terms of characters I wish I had created - just because I haven't dealt with anything like them - I'm really impressed by characters who can endur….
And, for any performer, to be able to go deep into character is fantastic. In film you only get to do that if you're the leading character. But in te….
I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving..
To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into th….
I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. O….
You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them aside in disgust at what they fanc….
I was always attracted to characters that were in some level of turmoil or suffering because I had so much of that in my own life and I wanted to cha….
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language ….
I think some of the big characters, you know, they do these adventures, but they've got something about them, they've got this charisma, and they've ….
Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters..