I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.
Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
I tend toward characters who are more lost than found.
I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play.
You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.
You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
I don't like drawing characters facing right.
Work on your character, let life fall into place.
Character is property. It is the noblest of possessions.
I'm basically drawn to defeated, injured, hurt, barely walking characters.
I was always inventing characters and making up stories.
I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.
You just drop a character like this that and the other and it's done.
The character of a people may be ruined by charity.
I consciously try not to play favorites with my characters or my books.
I do like to explore evil characters in my books.
I'm looking for challenges, and as always, what matters is the script, the character and the director.
The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
Start as early as you can. Make tapes of your characters.
As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.
I'm not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress.