You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.
In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there
As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.
I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.
Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.
I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.
My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.
The structure of 'March' was laid down for me before the first line was written, because my character has to exist within Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women' plotline.
Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.
'Firelight' is a beautiful story about a lot of young women. My character, Caroline, is a girl who has a bad boyfriend, and he ends up getting her locked up and incarcerated.
I have a life. A real one. And not all of it is with you.
I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.
The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time.
Poor eating habits developed at an early age lead to a lifetime of real health consequences.
Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.
A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.
I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.
