Achievers are Believers in Commitments and Dreams. But, the great achievers believe in their own and others' good CHARACTER too.
I wasn't terribly aware of Catwoman. She was a DC comics character and as a kid, I wasn't terribly fond of the DC comics characters. I was a Marvel boy.
I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.
Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart.
And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.
All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.
If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.
To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it's comedy or drama - I think timing is important in either. But for me, it's all about having a character to work on.
I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script.
My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.
We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.
The characters that aren't what they seem to be or women who are stronger than people give them credit for or characters you underestimate, I always think are really interesting because there are so many possibilities with them.
Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.
I don't believe in morality in architecture.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
Customs, morals--is there a difference?
