You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.
It is not possible to conceive a democratic Guatemala, free and independent, without the indigenous identity shaping its character into all aspects of national existence.
I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to.
Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding.
Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.
Never say you can't be a writer or a script writer, remember how well, characters in your dreams said their dialogues.
Delicious days ahead for solitude and writing and, oh yes, the holiday meal with family. Live with my characters until term starts in 2012!
For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
Stephen Moyer is probably the most gracious, gifted actor that I've met. He's really intelligent. He has a real sensitivity to his character, to scenes, to scripts.
Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.
The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.
I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.
I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.
When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.
With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
In 'Garden Party' or '40 Days and 40 Nights,' I played characters who people don't necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them.
All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.
