Character Quotes

Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.

Leon Trotsky
[Do you know] how it feels to be a clownish character? It's always complicated to imagine conveying yourself outside of your body. Inside myself I feel like this rich, complicated thing, and then I see representations of myself, especially in the media - and I think this is why it's troubling for me, because I feel so caricatured and flattened.

Kalan Sherrard
- Thinking
- Why
- Media

After a while, the character sort of took over.

Peter Mayhew
- Character
Two days later I got a call that they wanted to try out the character for seven episodes. Eleven years and 22 Emmys later, Cliff was still sitting at that bar.

John Ratzenberger
- Character
I've always been very strong minded on character-based fights and character-based action. If you take the character out of the action and you just shoot it as an action sequence, the audience starts to lose connection.

Wade Eastwood
- Strong
- Action
- Fighting
I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired by things that I misunderstand.

William Gibson
I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

Alan Alda
- Time
- Work
- Interesting
A bad laugh is a laugh for the sake of a laugh that's out of character.

Scott Ellis
- Character
- Laugh