Nice. I like a little desperation in a guy. It builds character.
Selfish act is very tempting but it leaves a permanent dent on your character.
The loves of all hearts are so many mirrors revealing their characters.
It was hard to judge a man's full character by his bachelor party etiquette.
I am the false character that follows the name around.
Voice is really about letting your characters loose.
When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.
The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.
I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.
I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.
All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.
You don't read many scripts, especially for crime dramas, that feature a strong woman as the central character.
The thing with 'The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo' is that is it's like an Agatha Christie plot, and an investigating journalist is also a classic character.
Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.
I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.
I very seldom, very seldom, even know what my characters look like.
I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
