I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.
In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.
I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.
My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.
George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.
We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.
I play a recurring role for a character named Doctor Imo. I assist the villain and show up from time to time.
I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.
As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.
You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.
Walking into a show when I was 16, at that time when it was the No. 1 hit show, and replacing a character comes with so many expectations. I felt a lot of pressure with that.
Having the Stitch character, the villain that becomes a hero, coming from outer space, it took a very difficult and complex story and put it into a simpler, kinder time.
Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.
The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.
From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.
New York is a character, all on its own, and whenever you film there, it becomes part of the show. That's just the nature of being there.
People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy.
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
