“I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.” BookCharacterSeemsCrazyExcuse Author:Jonathan Lethem
“Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of, say, chapter two and have thought: “This is where the novel should actually start.” A huge amount of information about character and backstory can be conveyed through small detail. The emotional attachment you feel to a scene or a chapter will fade as you move on to other stories. Be business-like about it.” FeelsShouldTwoCharacterStoriesMovingMy OwnNovelCuttingCrazyInformationEmotionalHugeAmountSceneIncludingDetailsAttachmentFadesChaptersManuscriptsLess Is MoreSmall Details Author:Sarah Waters
“The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.” CharacterActorsCrazyTablesComplicatedLife ExperienceYour CrazyCrazy Life Author:Victoria Clark
“I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept.” GivingCharacterDealsBrainCrazyConceptsZoneCupboardsForethought Author:Greg Kinnear
“I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters. The kind of fairytales I don't like are the ones with happy endings, where there's just good and evil and things are perfect. I think when there's a good story for children it has a moral tale, so that's what I try to teach my kids.” ThinkingTryingKindChildrenCharacterStoriesKidsEvilPerfectMoralTeachCrazyTalesGood And EvilHappy EndingsGood StoryFairytale Author:Angelina Jolie
“For me, the best characters are the ones that feel fully formed inside and out, so I try to have a very clear vision of exactly what they would wear, top to bottom, who they are, what their backstory is, what their family situation is, who are their friends, just creating as much of a three-dimensional character [as possible]. Because I think you could do a very broad character, but as long as there's some emotional truth to them you can get away with really crazy things.” ThinkingFeelsTryingLongCharacterThreeSituationVisionClearCrazyEmotionalCreatingBottomGet AwayBroadsCrazy ThingsClear VisionBest Character Author:Nick Kroll
“Okay, this is Fran Lebowitz. She gave an interview once for the Paris Review about trying to write fiction and saying that fiction writers start talking about how characters are talking to them, and it's crazy, she's never had that. And I also thought, I'm never gonna be able to do this, because I didn't feel that for a really long time.” FeelsWritingTryingLongCharacterAbleFictionTalkingCrazyLong TimeOkayParisInterviewsReviewsFiction WritersReally Long Author:Sloane Crosley
“I think a lot of people have seen me on The Simple Life and think I'm a "spoilt airhead," but I was playing a character. The producers said they wanted Nicole and I just to be crazy and funny and say outlandish things.” PeopleThinkingSaidCharacterWantedSimpleCrazyProducersSimple LifeBeing CrazyNicoleOutlandishSpoiltAirheads Author:Paris Hilton
“I think the best models are actors, you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition. Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that, you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.” ThinkingWayFeelsLooksPersonsLongHas BeensDifferentCharacterSeemsMovingActorsActingStepsCrazyLike YouEasierLong TimeModelsBiggerDeeperTransitionLike YourselfModelling Author:Liberty Ross
“I read the script and I really liked it. It was high energy, crazy and it goes to any level to get people nuts and I thought Eve was an interesting character. At first I didn't get her, so it made me want to do the role because I wanted to dive in and see what she was about. On top of that I also wanted to work with Jason Statham because he's an amazing actor.” PeopleWantFirstsMadeCharacterWantedActorsEnergyInterestingLevelsRolesCrazyScriptsNutsJasonInteresting CharactersHigh Energy Author:Amy Smart
“Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and, as the theory would predict, they are usually denigrated for their efforts. While they are alive, they may be called 'cantankerous,' 'crazy,' 'hysterical,' 'uppity,' or 'duped.' Dead, some of them become saints and heroes, the sterling characters of history. It's a matter of proportion. One angry rebel is crazy, three is a conspiracy, 50 is a movement.” WorldMayMatterCharacterThreeBeliefChallengesEffortAliveCrazyMovementTheoryHeroAngerAngrySaintActivismProportionRebellionRebelConspiracyComplacentHystericalDissidentsSterling Author:Carol Tavris
“I would like to do any way possible that Howard Stark can make a return. He's such a fun character to play, and I really believe that he could make quite an exciting character to watch more of. The flawed entrepreneur, the kind of crazy playboy, from that era is an exciting concept.” WayBelieveKindPlayCharacterFunWatchesCrazyReturnConceptsExcitingEntrepreneurErasFlawedStarksPlayboy Author:Dominic Cooper
“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.” KnowsKindMeanCharacterActorsBitsFiveNiceCrazySixPagesPaceMomentum Author:Colm Meaney
“I liked the idea that if something horrible was happening to one of the characters in the mental hospital, no one would believe them. The staff would just chalk it up to them being crazy. So it gives me a lot to work with.” IfsGivingBelieveIdeasCharacterCrazyHappeningsGive MeHorribleHospitalsStaffBeing CrazyChalk Author:Michael Rasmussen
“One thing that I don't think I do is play characters. Once you start claiming that you can do something that you're not, you're crazy. I think scripts can really surprise you. You go, "Wow, I did not know that that response could come from me. I did not know that I had that in me." And so, the process of making the movie is just finding that and digging a little deeper.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesPlayCharacterProcessCan DoOne ThingCrazyFindingsSurpriseResponseScriptsDeeperWowDiggingCan Do Something Author:Kristen Stewart
“I didn't really feel like I fit any of the parts. You either have to be this crazy beautiful supermodel lady, or you're a real character actress. I felt like I had to write things for myself, so I started doing that.” WritingRealCharacterBeautifulCrazyFitSupermodel Author:Kay Cannon
“With classic sitcoms like MASH, the characters all drove each other crazy, and that's what you loved to see.” CharacterCrazyClassicSitcom Author:David Alan Basche
“I read a random issue when I was a kid, but no, I wasn't super familiar with the characters [Captain Victory] until I started researching them. What I found once I started reading back issues however, was this crazy, sprawling, [Jack] Kirby space epic.” CharacterKidsReadingFoundSpaceIssuesCrazyVictoryFamiliarCaptainsEpic Author:Sterling Gates
“What intrigues me is that people kind of naturally want to label or pigeonhole the characters. They want to make it easy for themselves to go, "All right. There's the good guy, there's the bad guy, there's the girl. Okay, I get it now." But life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both. So any time the hero does something I'm not crazy about, or the bad guy does something I can relate to, I'll find it more interesting.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantKindDoeI CanCharacterGuyGirlEvilEasyInterestingCrazyHeroCapableOkayLabelsRelateDividedVersusIntrigueBad GuysGood Guy Author:Alexander Skarsgard
“My favorite kinds of stories are the ones that have these big crazy genre hijinks and then a real honest, meaty, emotional story where we're watching a character grapple with some real things.” KindRealCharacterStoriesBigsCrazyHonestEmotionalMy FavoriteGenreReal Things Author:Greg Pak
“We don't run out of stories, because of the characters. But also every year, the NFL, like a crazy rich uncle we never see, just drops some stories off at our door.” YearsCharacterStoriesRunningRichDoorsCrazyNflUncles Author:Jeff Schaffer
“I'm character-driven. If it's a great character and something different; because I find that a lot of the times you do get pigeon-holed, you do get the same characters over and over again because that's what producers are comfortable with. They've seen you do it, they know you can do it. I'm kind of getting a little stir crazy.” IfsKnowsKindLittlesDifferentCharacterCan DoCrazyComfortableDrivenProducersYou Can Do ItPigeonsGreat CharacterStir Crazy Author:A. J. Cook
“It's very difficult to find the time or the money for people to organize rehearsals for some movies. It staggers me how little preparation often goes into these scenes which are difficult and complicated. You think, "God, it's crazy. I've never met this person before and here I am having to work at how to do a whole performance on the set." It was great to have a few days of just talking to Michael [Caine] and Daniel [Barber] and thinking about the characters and the relationship between them before we started shooting.” PeopleThinkingLittlesPersonsWholeCharacterDifficultTalkingCrazyMetsScenePerformancesComplicatedPreparationShootingOrganizeRehearsalHere I AmBarbers Author:Emily Mortimer
“The harder part of doing a real story is that there are real people and you have a responsibility to not just go crazy with their lives and have them do things which are not their character, that they then have to live with.” PeopleRealCharacterStoriesResponsibilityCrazyHarderReal Story Author:Scott Walker
“I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that. I just love playing characters and getting paid for it, and that's what I want to do till the day I die.” WantCharacterDiesActorsLove IsCrazyPaidFancy Author:Rainn Wilson
“Even when I was on Curb Your Enthusiasm I wasn't this "over-the-top" crazy character. It was still kind of play it straight but it was funny because the situation was funny. That's kind of how I portrayed things and I like dramas; I like to be able to - because in dramas you can laugh and joke and still be serious, be real. I like the realism of them.” KindStillsRealPlayCharacterAbleSituationLaughingCrazySeriousDramaJokesEnthusiasmBeing RealRealismCurbOver The TopCurb Your Enthusiasm Author:Mekhi Phifer
“I think a few of my most visible roles are crazy or peppy girls, but I've played a lot of characters who are soldiers, or fighters, or meditative characters, and a lot of this stuff hasn't come out.” ThinkingCharacterGirlStuffRolesCrazySoldierFighterVisible Author:Ashly Burch
“Acting didn't solve much! If it did, I would have ended up much less crazy than I am today, but I'm not. At least for me, acting is a relief - a relief to be able to admit certain things about myself and disguise in my work, in my characters.” IfsCharacterTodayAbleCertainActingCrazySolveReliefDisguise Author:Dustin Hoffman
“I think you have to be schizoid three different ways to be an actor ... You have to be a human being. Then you have to be the character you're playing. And on top of that you've got to be the guy sitting out there in Row 10, watching yourself and judging yourself. That's why most of us are crazy to start with, or go nuts once we get into it.” ThinkingWayHumansDifferentCharacterGuyThreeActorsHuman BeingsCrazyJudgingSittingDifferent WaysNutsSchizoidJudging Yourself Author:George C. Scott
“You can never judge your characters. You have to love them, really care about them. You're never just playing a villain or the crazy lady.” CharacterCareCrazyJudgingVillain Author:Annabella Sciorra
“I just adored Peter Medak, the director. He's such a character, but he was so much fun. Some directors come in and they truly get angry about things.Peter was still in a fantastic mood. He's a delightful person. He threw a big party at the end of the pilot, which was so sweet. And his wife is an opera singer. He's just a very warm, crazy beautiful individual.” PersonsStillsEndsCharacterBigsBeautifulIndividualFunPartyWifeCrazySweetDirectorsAngryWarmSingersMoodFantasticPilotsOperaPeterDelightfulOpera Singers Author:Brigid Brannagh
“I'd be happy to play anyone's girlfriend. I'm happy to be working, ever. It's not an intentional thing to play these messed up, crazy characters, but I'm happy to do it 'cause someone's got to.” PlayCharacterCausesCrazyGirlfriendMessed Up Author:Madeline Zima
“There are moments, moments of fun but it's never necessarily a wink/wink. It's just interesting and odd and crazy things happen inside the world just like a crazy thing happened inside our world. So we don't shy away from that stuff. We take semi-ordinary characters, even though they have their own skill sets, we take those guys and we drop them into extraordinary situations and watch how the get out of them.” WorldMomentsCharacterHappensGuyFunStuffInterestingSituationWatchesHappenedCrazySkillsOrdinaryExtraordinaryThings HappenOddShyOur WorldCrazy Things Author:Todd Farmer
“Whatever job I had, I was always writing like crazy. All I ever liked about offices was being able to type up stories on the computer when no one was looking. I was never paying much attention in meetings because I was usually scribbling bits of my latest stories in the margins of the pad or thinking up names for my characters. This is a problem when you're supposed to be taking minutes of the meeting.” ThinkingWritingCharacterStoriesProblemAbleJobsNamesBitsAttentionCrazyMinutesTypeOfficeComputerMeetingsSupposed To BeMarginsPads Author:J. K. Rowling
“I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.” RealCharacterCrazyToughReal Life Author:Katee Sackhoff
“There are studies that have shown that we make decisions, ethical and otherwise, based on the way we imagine ourselves as characters in the stories of our lives. In other words, if we imagine ourselves brave or crazy or open, we're more likely to make decisions in a given situation based on how we imagine ourselves, whatever the facts may be.” IfsWayMayCharacterFactsStoriesGivenDecisionSituationStudyOur LivesImagineCrazyBraveEthical Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong. What's crazy is that my thinking is not a new insight. The very first large-scale study of character, still one of the largest ever, was done in the early 1900s by Hugh Hartshorne, an ordained minister and a scientist.” PeopleThinkingFirstsStillsDoneCharacterStrongStudyCrazyLowsScientistNotionInsightScalesMinistersVery StrongDiggingLarge Scale Author:L. Todd Rose
“I love my job so much. I thought, what a cool way for kids to learn, via assignment, via reporting. I learn so much as an adult going around and covering these stories. How fun it would be to do it via a storybook app and cartoon characters. My daughter can work on an iPhone and iPad like crazy. That's their world. If you can use that, use it educationally.” IfsWorldWayCharacterStoriesUseWould BeKidsJobsFunCrazyDaughterAdultsMy DaughterCartoonCoveringIphoneAssignmentsAppsIpadsCartoon Character Author:Nancy O'Dell
“I realized that once I graduated from college, there might be a period of time where people might typecast me or be more limiting, and I might not be able to play a crazy character. For me, it was important to do that at least in school.” PeopleImportantPlayCharacterMightAbleSchoolCrazyCollegePeriodsI Realized Author:Condola Rashad
“I indulged the wild child inside of me - the one that's not aware of danger or fear - for the purity of existence for that character in that film. Of course, behind me they're saying, 'She's crazy!'” ChildrenCharacterFilmCoursesBehindsExistenceCrazyDangerPurityWild Child Author:Bai Ling
“It was very nerve-wracking for me. I had to be drunk and have a threesome. I'm not that guy. Bobby Cannavale is that guy. But it was Vegas and things got crazy, and it happened. We go to Vegas to try to sign Elvis Presley and things get crazy. My character [in Vinyl] is stoned.” TryingCharacterGuyHappenedCrazyDrunkNervesVegasThat GuyVinylThreesome Author:Ray Romano
“When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd written for them already just because I claimed my character had.” CharacterWrittenCrazyStonesStudiosBrownRollingAssignmentsRolling Stones Author:Jonathan Lethem
“Bridges - a master of subtle brilliance - plays the hell out of it. Not by showing off, but by going bone-deep into a character who only thinks he's running on empty. Crazy Heart may finally win him the Oscar that's unfairly eluded him and it offers the pleasure of watching a great actor at the peak of his form.” ThinkingHeartMayPlayCharacterRunningFormActorsWinningPleasureHellCrazyMastersOffersEmptyBonesBridgesSubtleOscarsBrillianceShowing OffGreat Actors Author:Peter Travers
“When I watch the show [Westworld], it leaves me looking at the world around me in a new way. It really stays with you. And it's one of those things that you have to figure out. You're going to get little clues along the way, and every time you think you know what's up, we're going to flip it around. It's going to take you for a really awesome, crazy ride, but it's a really, really revolutionary character for women. There's a lot of really fun stuff to look forward to.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayLooksLittlesCharacterShowsFunStuffWatchesCrazyFiguresRevolutionaryNew WaysClueLeaving MeFlipYou Think You KnowFun StuffReally Awesome Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“Writing advice is not the product of an equation. "If you do X, then Y will occur" is false in this instance. "If you name a character John Q. Hymenbreaker, your book will be an instant bestseller" is crazy-talk. Writing advice is not about providing certifiable answers. It is about making suggestions.” IfsWritingBookCharacterNamesAnswersCrazyAdviceProductsInstanceInstantProvidingSuggestionsEquationsWriting Advice Author:Chuck Wendig
“I read the script [of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] and went, "I haven't read anything this good, in a long time." I thought it was absolutely brilliant. The dialogue is so sparkling, smart and witty. You also have these insane, crazy characters, like energy sucking vampires and holistic assassins. It's all completely weird.” LongCharacterEnergyCrazyHavensLong TimeSmartScriptsWittyBrilliantDialogueInsaneVampireAgencyDetectivesHolisticAssassinsSparklingDirk Gently Author:Samuel Barnett
“I remember I had scenes with Melinda McGraw in "Ides Of March" that I didn't have in "Video Vigilante," but I can't quite picture that other character. But it was Vancouver, and that year was crazy” YearsI CanCharacterRememberCrazySceneVideoMarchVancouverVigilanteIdes Of March Author:Eric McCormack
“I love everything. I love being the empathetic characters. I love being the villains. I think it's like when we're kids, we like to play all kinds of crazy characters and dress up.” ThinkingKindPlayCharacterKidsLove IsCrazyDressesAll KindsVillainEmpathetic Author:Kathy Bates
“I'm just a psycho myself. I loved playing Leila [from Fifty Shades Darker], taking on [a character] who's completely unhinged. I saw her as a girl who's grief-stricken and she just doesn't have the tools to cope. Grief and heartbreak, it makes you do some pretty crazy things.” CharacterGirlGriefSawsCrazyToolsFiftyShadePsychoCrazy ThingsFifty Shades Author:Bella Heathcote