English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy ….

You don't really have a story until you discover the moment when the pressures on a character force a sudden, abrupt shift in direction and she falls….

I like looking at the characters. Seeing them always brings up some voice or attitude. I am much more visual, and that works so much better than havi….

People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-….

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how ….

I did do, well before Pop Art, all the cartoon characters as paintings..

I always thought Cheers ended well. You always anticipate that the characters, theough they're leaving television, will somehow go on in another worl….

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.

I love saying dialogue and creating a full character more than just being physical. But I always end up doing physical stuff in my roles..

How do you create something unknown?.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself..

My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't ….

My job as an actor is to serve the script. If I'm looking at it as to see what the best character is, then it's not really looking at the big picture..

It's like having children. You give birth, but then they take on a life of their own. That's what actors do for characters. It's pretty amazing..

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence..

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures..

He gave everything to everybody. Except to me..

Discover what you don't like doing and stop doing it..

I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character..

I don't like to read books where I feel as though I've stepped into the middle of things and don't know what's going on. I like to see characters I'v….

Nobody can hear you read music..