No one thinks they're irritating. Nobody thinks they're boring. So if you're playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves.
Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.
My role is Katara: in 'The Last Airbender,' I'm a water bender from the southern water tribe, and my character is really strong but also loving.
For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.
I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.
She built her character with the adversity she had faced, so she could live the best of her life for the rest of life.
Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?
In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate - look to his character.
I had always wanted to lend my voice to a character. I did a voice for this video game, called 'Fallout 3,' and that was really fun.
If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.
When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.
When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.
I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else.
I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.
In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him. He was a performance artist in a way.
Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.
The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live.
I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.
