When you look at "American Crime" and you have the character Terri LaCroix is a pharmaceutical executive - why does that character always have to be ….

Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic of who we are simply by lasting i….

I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now Ive decided that reading fictio….

Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find you..

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious..

When I went to the University of Iowa in order to be a writer, I thought, This is the worst way to learn how to write. To sit in a room with a bunch ….

To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra.

I'm Angie to everybody, you've got to learn..

The primary reason people watch television is you want to see the world through somebody else's eyes, and learn what that's like. You can only live o….

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars..

When you have to jump, you jump..

Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness, ….

The nature of things is to have no nature; it is their non-nature that is their nature. For they have only one nature: no-nature..

When you did impressions on 'MADtv,' the producers gave you a Walkman that played huge sections of whatever movie was being parodied, with your chara….

No one is ever going to be as good as I was.

What we see is not always what exists..

Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent beca….

I love what I do for a living..

In every sport there comes a moment when a spell of bitter weeping seems like a fair recess from whatever tough work is going on. It's only the steel….

I'm attracted to the underrated characters..

Fear dims when you learn things..