Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.
'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' ends with the spaceship lands and Richard Dreyfuss' character best on, but a bunch of pilots and sailors from the 1940s get off. You kind of wanted to know what happened next.
The best complement I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don't notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the TV show happens.
When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.
Disney acting is a little more difficult than many people think it is. People feel like the characters aren't deep, but as an actor, you try to do everything you can do the best of your ability.
The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This is true in real life.
I'm trying to figure out precisely which character flaw might be responsible for my latest life failure.
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.
Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
Everybody has parents. As a dramatist, whenever you write a character, you must write their parents as well, even if the parents aren't there.
No one thinks they're irritating. Nobody thinks they're boring. So if you're playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves.
Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.
My role is Katara: in 'The Last Airbender,' I'm a water bender from the southern water tribe, and my character is really strong but also loving.
For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.
I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.
She built her character with the adversity she had faced, so she could live the best of her life for the rest of life.
Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?
In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate - look to his character.
