Character Quotes

I’m the type of person to put myself in everybody else’s shoes.

Storytelling is about two things; it’s about character and plot.

Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.

There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence… sort of like the Post Office with tanks.

It takes nine months for a baby to develop, it takes nine months to develop a character.

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]

I’m irrational about all things creative and I’m always late!