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Why does 'I Love Lucy' still make people laugh? Because she's a specific character who has real reactions.
I love people who are inches away from completely falling apart. I think that's a fun, electric character to take on.
I love to study people and pick apart what makes a person or character who they are. I never want to get complacent in that.
I can't help slightly falling in love with every character I write about. And I quite like writing about people who are vilified.
I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive.
I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!
I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful plays and who delivered performances that made people think and rethink those roles.
To be honest, even I was tanned three shades darker in 'Love Sonia.' The fact that people were able to connect to my character was very important. Why should we not have that kind of makeup?
I love the idea of being the underdog, coming in with a take on this underdog character and completely blow people's expectations away. Like, 'Oh, you thought he was going to be a wimpy character? No no no.'
There are people I know who love President Trump and think that he's the greatest thing that's ever happened to America. I understand those people. I'm not shocked by them. I defend their right to love him. But I do think character and rhetoric matter.
I want to play so many different characters. I want to, like, understand so many different people, and psychoanalysis, everything. I love that about my job: getting into the character and understanding it and doing the psychoanalysis and creating that character.
People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?
I do think that people get really emotionally involved in the TV shows that they love and I think that is fantastic. Of course they are going to have opinions. The other thing is that people project onto their television shows. They see a character and layer on many traits that are actually their own or their idea of what that character is.