As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!
You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
I think all the characters in 'American Horror Story,' which is why I love it, are looking for some sense of meaning, and also it's their form of happiness.
M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.
With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?
I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.
Ultimately, you change the culture in Washington only one way, and it's one election at a time, with the character of the people you send.
It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.
I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.
Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and clothing for the masses.
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.
I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.
The great lesson in theatre is that you live the story every night, and that is a wonderful vehicle for getting to the richest places in a performance or investing a character with the richest life.
The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.
The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.
One of the great things about my mother is she really valued people's character more than what they did.
The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.
