Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.
Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.
I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.
The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has this very distinct character who has something profound to say.
I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.
One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.
I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn.
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.
In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.
War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.
This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.
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.
