I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
Working with animals forces an actor to work harder because you have to be quick when it comes to improvisation, and you can't break character - at all.
My work is distinct and definitive and specific, and hopefully it is so that every single character is different, and they are - but there's probably an underlying element that's me.
I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.
I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.
Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
I don't fully understand my wife's emotions - and I'm supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.
Heroes in fact die with one's youth. They are pinned like butterflies to the setting board of early memories—the time when skies were always blue, the sun shone and the air was filled with the sounds and scents of grass being cut. I find myself sti...
Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully designing shiny weapons on modern computers. But there's no thinking in the mud and cold of nature's trenches. At best, weapons thrown together amidst...
I have often thought that Walter Mitty had it in him to be more than a hen-pecked loser. Instead of living it up as a flamboyant daredevil in his dreams, he could have chosen to be a responsible man in real life, going about his work with dignity, an...
There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. "Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts." "Why can't we all move forward together?" "Because you're all different. You're n...
To ensure that we are leading with our feet firmly planted on the soil of what is, we must live by the seven commandments of current reality: Thou shalt not pretend. Though shalt not turn a blind eye. Thou shalt not exaggerate. Thou shalt not shoot t...
I want to tell you a growing conviction with me, and that is that as we obey the leadings of the Spirit of God, we enable God to answer the prayers of other people. I mean that our lives, my life, is the answer to someone’s prayer, prayed perhaps c...
God cautions us in Isaiah 55:9 that his ways are not ours and his thoughts are higher than our thoughts (undoubtedly one of the grander understatements). God is warning us that he is not logical and that believing him to be logical will lead to all k...
I wander cowboy sidewalks of wood, wearing a too-small hat, filled with remorse for the many lives I failed to lead.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Explore your untamed dreams and you just might find a unique place where a confluence of paths lead towards your destiny.
The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world and people it, the second move the world and lead it to its goal.
Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires.
