The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.
In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.
War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.
This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.
You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.
It is not possible to conceive a democratic Guatemala, free and independent, without the indigenous identity shaping its character into all aspects of national existence.
I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to.
Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding.
Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.
Never say you can't be a writer or a script writer, remember how well, characters in your dreams said their dialogues.
Delicious days ahead for solitude and writing and, oh yes, the holiday meal with family. Live with my characters until term starts in 2012!
Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.
The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.
I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.
I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.
When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.
With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
