I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe, I'd have more character.

In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.

There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.

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 is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

I do not like assassins, or men of low character.

There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.

Ron was always my favorite character, because I feel like I relate to him, like we've both got red hair, we both like sweets, we've both got lots of brothers and sisters.

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.