And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends.
I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.
We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.
I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.
It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.
Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends – sorry, I meant characters.
I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out.
It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.
There are fantastic stories yet to be told featuring Marvel's characters, old and new, and I'm thrilled to be part of them.
You've got to be honest with yourself aesthetically about who could you play. You want to artistically be true to that character.
I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.
If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel.
Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character.
Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.
That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.
Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
