I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.
Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.
People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
We really lived, ate, drank and slept Batman - ideas, characters and stories.
I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.
I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.
I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.
You can tell a lot about a man's character by how he behaves when given anonymity..
I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.
Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.
I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.
Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live.
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.
When I write, I see the character inside out, not outside in.
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.
In 'Zombieland,' it was such a freewheeling plot it almost didn't matter what the characters were doing scene to scene as long as there was a consistent banter.
I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.
'Coronation Street' was my first job, Zoe was a controversial character, and I wasn't used to everyone looking at me.
To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.
