I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters.
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird.
The actors I admire are character actors.
I don't like sympathetic characters.
I've always loved the underdog characters.
If I don't love my character, I can't do it.
Thomas Wollaston, in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, complained that Darwin did no seem to know what a species actually was. The British Quarterly, deliberately sitting up trouble, speculated that a time might come when a monkey could pro...
The llama was wearing a bridle with a rope attached where you might expect to find reins. A greeting card was hanging from his neck: 'Hola Como se llama? Yo me llamo C. Llama.' During his preschool years, Clay's favorite cartoon had featured a Spanis...
When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral...
The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are strikingly unhappy. Accordingly, we present to the rest of mankind, on a planet rife with suffering and tragedy, the spectacle of a clown civilization. Su...
Randal Graves: I thought you weren't even allowed to watch a lot of TV in your house cause you're all Christian and shit. Elias: Well, as it turns out, cars and trucks that turn into robots aren't really that blasphemous. Because my pastor says that ...
Wendy Torrance: Mr Hallorann. How did you know we call Danny Doc? Dick Hallorann: Excuse me? Wendy Torrance: Doc. You just called Danny Doc twice now. We call him that sometimes like in the Bugs Bunny cartoons. Dick Hallorann: You must have called hi...
You never play age, you play character.
If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.
The darker the character, the more interesting.
I always look for contradiction in a character.
I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.
Well, for one, I don't judge my characters.
I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.
Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.
