I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.
I am really not interested in the cinema.
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
Most problems of teaching are not problems of growth but helping cultivate growth. As far as I know, and this is only from personal experience in teaching, I think about ninety percent of the problem in teaching, or maybe ninety-eight percent, is jus...
Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy that our own character would hold steady under the most extreme pressure of dreadful events. [But we must face] the painful awareness that in all likelyhood one's own cha...
For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for the most part, my characters go along with it. I write intense character sketches and long, play-like conversations between me an...
I'd say I'm a pretty intense person. I'm definitely not my Denise character on 'Scrubs,' nor my Jane character on 'Happy Endings,' but I'm a mix of the two. I really feel that I'm kind of every character that I've ever played; it's just a part of me....
In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.
To a leader, reputation is an option, but true character is a necessity!
Normally, when you're working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.
It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.'
I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.
I'd rather play a character that was really, really different to me as to someone who is quite close to my character.
There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving.
I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.
I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.
Well, I don't think characters change. I think they become more revealed. I don't think you really can change a character on a show.
I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters.
I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.
Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.
