For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters.
I like to do comedy, but I'll be perfectly honest, I prefer to do drama and more character-driven-based stuff, generally.
The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.
I bring so much of myself to each character that there's always a worrying point when I think: 'Oh no, I'm really that person.'
I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.
An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.
The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.
I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.
When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.
Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.
Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word.
I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.
It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.
It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.
I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.
I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
The whole sex-symbol thing is part of what I do as an actress. It's a kind of character I play. It's part of me, but not the whole me.
To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.
If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.
All the characters I've ever played have really had nothing to do with looks. There's a lot of things that are a lot more interesting to me to play than that.
