Character Quotes

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!

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

I think everything you do, characters I always find, have their own voices and once you establish who that character is you find a different voice. I think it’s just a question of establishing that character and the voice speaks through that character.

Freedom and independence is my character.

What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.

I just don’t care what people have to say. I keep pushing toward what I want. It’s just how I am. I don’t know where I got it from.

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don’t have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.

I enjoy playing a quintessential antihero. There’s something therapeutic about playing such characters. I know it sounds corny but I feel like I learn about myself when I play that characters.