I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.
I have zero idea of what my involvement with 'The Lying Game' is going to be. I'm a character that may or may not be permanently involved.
[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it." [ (1865)]
Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.
I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.
All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.
Switching the public's perception and view of me was, and still is, kind of a challenge to get them to see me outside of a character that I played on TV for so long.
I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.
so many people would be afraid to look in the mirror if the saw their character and not their face…it would be like american horror story.
I think that with everything I've done, in the end, whoever the central character is, they would find a way to forgive, because that's really important to me.
I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.
My stories are pretty simplistic, but the characters are always complex and always right, and that comes from the script and my research and reverse-engineering what I find in the real world.
I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.
For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they'll do in any scene you put them in.
I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.
One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.
I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.
I try to keep myself in what I'm doing and focused on character stuff, as opposed to getting wrapped up in worrying or being nervous. It won't benefit me, in any way, to focus on that.
I really enjoyed playing Freddie Cork. People are always scared to approach me because of the character I played in 'Brotherhood.' The writing was very smart.
One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent.