I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.
All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name in life! The show is such a phenomenon all over the world.
The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.
When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.
And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.
I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.
Perhaps this is what Henry James meant when he talked about the “irresponsibility” of characters. Characters are irresponsible, art is irresponsible when compared to life, because it is first and foremost important that a character be real, and a...
Dogs have always provided a special kind of love and companionship that I experience only some of the time with humans. They have a strong sense of character and live the way we ought to: dogs never compare you to your sister nor make judgments in he...
We believed optimistically that Laurie was a reformed character. I told my husband, on the last day of Laurie's confinement, that actually one good scare like that could probably mark a child for life, and my husband pointed out that kids frequently ...
When my brother,…, was a young boy learning the Chinese classics, I was in the habit of listening with him and I became unusually proficient at understanding those passages that he found too difficult to grasp and memorize. Father a most learned ma...
If you are writing a story, miracles or abnormal events may be bad art, or they may not. If, for example, you are writing an ordinary realistic novel and have got your characters into a hopeless muddle, it would be quite intolerable if you suddenly c...
Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldn’t rely on it, because it’s not guaranteed and it’s not permanent and it’s not sufficient. So work hard, ...
Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Sorry about your bad luck.
Does bad luck come in 3's...or is it multiples of 3?
Life is short, no use wasting it with bad people.
But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.
No lo entendían, pero, como tantos otros sucesos desafortunados de la vida, no por no entenderlos dejan de ser ciertos
Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.
One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.
