I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

I'm a character actress.

The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days.

If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.

No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them.

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

We had a script that was really solid and we knew how we were going to shoot and how the energy of it was going to go. So it gave us a lot of freedom to use the camera as a character.

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

My character Esteban is a guy who really didn't think he was gonna be there at this point in his life. He's in his early 30s. He's got a son. He's raising his son as a single father.

And a lesson in this movie is dig beneath the surface. And so with my words, with my character, I purposely created a character that was away from how you've known me thus far in my career.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.