I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
The whole sex-symbol thing is part of what I do as an actress. It's a kind of character I play. It's part of me, but not the whole me.
To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.
If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.
All the characters I've ever played have really had nothing to do with looks. There's a lot of things that are a lot more interesting to me to play than that.
For a long-running TV show, you're looking for a character who is interesting and vibrant and you can imagine going into all kinds of different areas.
I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.
He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.
When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.
It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view.
I couldn't bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.
The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.
The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.
When I play supernatural characters in 'Ghost Rider' or 'City Of Angels,' the possibilities are limitless. The possibilities are endless, you can do so much with that.
One thing George R. R. Martin does is surprising things to main characters. But he says so himself.
In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.
From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.
I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.
