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The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.
I'd like to do a play, but I can't find the right thing. I don't want it to be a starring role. I just want to play a really interesting character.
I never make a film with a message in mind. I'm more interested in the characters; how they are related to each other and the situation they're in.
I see pictures in my mind and become the character in the song as I'm writing. It's kind of method songwriting, where you're the actor in the song.
I had done a little bit one other time. This character [in Jack Reacher] is a psychopath, but I had been hired by Carlton Cuse and Randall Wallace.
Identifying with a character is one of the best parts of seeing a movie, but as women, we've had to train ourselves to experience the male journey.
A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.
I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.
I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape through the characters.
I think there's a great connection between these two characters for sure. I mean, I don't know if she's coming over for dinner on the Barton ranch.
I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.
I love weird man, when you get to do something that you don't necessarily get to do in real life, play characters that are a little bit outlandish.
I'm not someone who doesn't want to see the films, but I like to see them as an end product when the whole nuance of the character is put together.
Value work. But not any kind of work. Ask yourself "Is the work vital, strengthening my own character, or inspiring others, or helping the world?".
I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids.
With Superman, there are certain limitations for an actor. You can't go past certain boundaries because then you cease to be what the character is.
Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be.
I try not to divide plot and character. I get to know a character by what they want and fear and how those internal forces play out in their lives.
When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.
I have always been business minded, always been sorta an entrepreneurial guy; I played a character on Felicity that was modeled after me, actually.
Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.
Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.
genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.
I'm always terrified before every movie because I haven't found her [the character], and I don't get it. [Without acting, I'd have] become a nurse.
Actually there were [ in MacGyver] a lot of things about the original that focused on the character, but not too many people seem to remember that.
You are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments.
In my theater days I assumed that you had to get rid of yourself to do a character well, and I don’t think I was a very good actor when I did that.
I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.
I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don't care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story that I'm excited about, I'm in.
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.
Like most people, Im fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.
My film (Black Venus) had been very emotionally draining and difficult because I had identified so much with the lead character, Saartjie Baartman.
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.
It's fun to play characters in songs. I can just cheat a little bit... be this person for just a small amount of time and just help vent that idea.
The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.
Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
I think the scariest thing to me is to think that somebody would only associate me with one character and that that's all that I would get to play.
When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.
I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax.
Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.
If you look at my body of work, my characters drastically vary, and so I typically don't play the same role. It makes me feel reborn with each role.
Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.
Artists who are relevant today won't be tomorrow unless someone does the right thing by their character and preserves it in the dialogue of a movie.
Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you to those correct choices.
I've always maintained that all characters and all personalities are in all of us. The whole thing is available. You're not this or that, no one is.
When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them - my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a wife, as a lover, as a daughter.
I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.
Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.