“I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.” KnowsLittlesCharacterHelpingFocusHelp MeAccents Author:Kevin McKidd
“As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.” KnowsNeedsCharacterActorsBackgrounds Author:John Noble
“I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.” KnowsWayEndsMatterCharacterStoriesInterestingCrimeCommittedBoringPlotJust BeingEntertainers Author:Jo Nesbo
“I always had a lot of confidence in my work and the unique flavor I like to bring to my characters, but you know I'm not a huge dreamer.” KnowsCharacterHugeUniqueDreamerFlavor Author:Nick Offerman
“A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.” PeopleKnowsTryingYearsWellsCharacterFeelingsMightJournalistListenersGood Writers Author:Louise Penny
“One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.” KnowsYearsWellsCharacterTelevisionBenefits Author:Aleksa Palladino
“I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters.” KnowsLooksKindSometimesPlayCharacterFunEnjoyWorryComedyToo MuchRiskDeludedPhysical ComedyWorrying Too Much Author:Amy Poehler
“My thing about looking good is that it should be the character. If I'm playing a character who's concerned about his body - an athlete, say - I'll get in shape. If I'm playing a character who doesn't or wouldn't, I don't. I almost never get in shape for a movie, even though I know it would be a good career move.” IfsKnowsShouldCharacterBodyWould BeMovingCareersShapesConcernedAthleteLooking GoodGetting In Shape Author:Aidan Quinn
“As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.” KnowsWantDifferentCharacterActorsInterestingInspiredInteresting Characters Author:Kelly Reilly
“Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in 'The Trusty' was going for water, I did not know that he would meet a fetching young farm wife until I got him into her front yard.” KnowsSometimesCharacterMovingYoungWaitingWaterWifeFrontsInstanceFarmsYardsMoving Away Author:Ron Rash
“Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.” ThinkingKnowsYearsFirstsWellsCharacterWantedGuyActorsGoneCharacter Actors Author:Stephen Root
“We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.” KnowsFirstsWellsStillsEndsCharacterPastMysteryCenturyFirst TimeSpeedPostsFlashRollingOur ThoughtsBentTweetParagraphKnow It All140 CharacterRolling Along Author:Ali Smith
“Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.” KnowsPlayCharacterFallEasyKnow HowFiveTelevisionGoes OnWalkingSceneSeasonsAssumingBoringTricky Author:John Slattery
“But I've always felt that the less you know about an actor's personal life, the more you can get involved in the story in which he's playing a character. And I don't like to see movies where you know about everything that happens behind the scenes. I can't engage in the story if I know what's going on in the actor's head.” IfsKnowsI CanCharacterStoriesHappensActorsFeltBehindsInvolvedScenePersonal LifeGet InvolvedBehind The Scenes Author:Eric Stoltz
“I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.” IfsKnowsWayBelieveStillsSometimesCharacterValuesAsksMoralOpinionStruggleIssuesMediaResponsibleDon't BelieveCensorship Author:Katey Sagal
“First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.” KnowsFirstsEndsEnoughCharacterMightLastsFilmCasesPiecesMaterialsSceneFlowScriptsExtremes Author:Jean Stapleton
“It's something that people relate to - and I hope my kid doesn't relate to - but there's a level of believability in playing complex characters. You know, Christopher Walken has done some hilarious comedies, De Niro. There's great room for complexity and darkness to do well in comedies.” PeopleKnowsWellsDoneCharacterKidsLevelsRoomsDarknessComedyComplexesRelateComplexityDe NiroComplex CharactersBelievability Author:Jeremy Sisto
“It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.” KnowsWayWholeCharacterFilmArcs Author:Sissy Spacek
“My fans and people who know of my character want to see me become more successful.” PeopleKnowsWantCharacterSuccessfulFans Author:Tila Tequila
“For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.” KnowsWritingTryingHeartRealCharacterRelatePerformersBeing Real Author:Uma Thurman
“I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.” PeopleKnowsMatterCharacterBigsCoreTruthful Author:Lesley Ann Warren
“If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.” IfsKnowsLittlesCharacterAmericaFantasticCharlieOrphanAnnieChaplin Author:Marguerite Young
“All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.” KnowsNeedsGivingWritingCharacterGoal Author:J.A. Konrath
“What it comes down to is I don't mind if Superman kills people because he has no reason not to kill people. I know that one of the tenets of the character is that he doesn't, but the reason that he doesn't is because having that much power makes you responsible for weaker people.” PeopleIfsKnowsMindReasonCharacterResponsibleNo Reason Author:Max Landis
“I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldCharacterOur World Author:Zoe Lister-Jones
“If you're playing your character and you're running into all these people who know who you are and treat you in a way that doesn't pertain at all to the character, it takes you out of it more, so when you're alone in a city where people don't know you, you can kind of pretend even more and get into the head space of where you need to be.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayNeedsKindCharacterRunningSpaceCitiesTreatsWho You Are Author:Chris Messina
“I'm not a fan of anybody music who I feel like a sucka. I don't listen to you. They play you in the club, you can have the #1 jam, but if I know your character, how can I listen to your music?” IfsKnowsFeelsPlayCharacterFansClubsJam Author:Gucci Mane
“TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.” KnowsWantYearsHardPlayCharacterFilmKnow HowHellTvsHard WorkMurderRangeSurvivedAngela Author:Christopher Meloni
“I like playing a character every day. I like having something to go back to. I always enjoyed that with 'Will & Grace.' I like the camaraderie. I like having a crew that I know and I can work with every day.” KnowsI CanCharacterGraceEnjoyedCrewCamaraderie Author:Eric McCormack
“The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.” KnowsCharacterStoriesAmericaPerformingAmerican Character Author:Rebel Wilson
“If you are a programmer working in 2006 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I’m going to punish you by making you peel onions for six months in a submarine.” IfsKnowsCharacterMonthsSixSix MonthsProgrammersBasicsOnionsSubmarines Author:Joel Spolsky
“There’s an old writing rule that says ‘Don’t have two character names start with the same letter’, but I knew at the beginning that I was going to have more than 26 characters, so I was in trouble there. Ultimately it comes down to what sounds right. And I struggle with that, finding the right name for a character. If I can’t find the right name I don’t know who the character is and I can’t proceed.” IfsKnowsWritingI CanTwoCharacterNamesSoundStruggleTroubleFindingsLetters Author:George R. R. Martin
“I've always believed since I was a kid that God was gonna allow me to play professional football, to use it as a platform to proclaim and live out the name of Jesus. And, you know, that's the most exciting part about my life because God has done things in me to change my character to benefit the kingdom.” KnowsDonePlayCharacterUseKidsJesusNamesFootballBenefitsExcitingKingdomsPlatformsAlways Believe Author:Reggie White
“We know the excitement of getting a present - we love to unwrap it to see what is inside. So it is with our children. They are gifts we unwrap for years as we discover the unique characters God has made them.” KnowsYearsChildrenMadeCharacterUniqueOur ChildrenExcitement Author:Cornelius Plantinga
“I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.” KnowsCharacterSeemsLanguageSoundPagesPlotRudeJuvenileAdverbs Author:Colum McCann
“One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.” KnowsCharacterPetPeevesPet Peeve Author:Glenn Howerton
“When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.” IfsKnowsWritingCharacterActorsProjectsApproachListsStandpointAdjectives Author:Omari Hardwick
“We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.” PeopleKnowsWayIdeasCharacterDifficultCircumstancesWho You AreTestedDifficult Circumstances Author:Erich Hoeber
“I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breath life into me.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsLongBookCharacterDreamNovelKnow HowAirTownsBreathsNever QuitUndoneUnwrittenHoveringBook Of DisquietPrologue Book:The Book of Disquiet Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.” KnowsShouldCharacterHateDifficultAnswersFictionMoralI HateBloodyDilemmaMoral Dilemma Author:Pat Barker