If your life gets off to a rough start, just know this is helping you develop depth of personality and depth of character.

We're so obsessed with, 'Is Michael Cohen going to jail or not? Is Rod Rosenstein going to be fired? What did Trump tweet today? Did he call the press an enemy of the state?' We're so focused on that,...

I write on a very strict 2-hour-a-day schedule, and I really respond to structure and invented rules. So even if I'm finding out good information on a character, I will stop when I'm set to stop.

The actors I admire are character actors.

There comes a point in any project where you have to say - whether you like or understand the character, or the whole play for that matter - 'I believe!'

I stress character, character, character.

When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.

There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'

Sometimes it's the lead, but there are not always leads out there, so then it's an interesting supporting character, or there's a lot of dough, although that happens less and less. Let's have a good...

In the U.S.A., the fans are passionate and are willing to believe in your character.

I don't really read any comics, but when I got casted on the show, I started reading 'The Walking Dead' comics. I felt like I needed a better idea of the character.

The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives, and then from that, I get a lot of ideas of how the film could be made, how it could be told.

It's definitely hard to say good-bye to a character that you've played for a long time.

I have always felt responsible for every character I played, devoting myself to learning everything about the craft.

As far as being a plus-size woman, I play a plus-size character by default, and for me, the visibility - that, I think, is key.

Playing a real-life character is very intriguing.

I don't have a set way of dressing or a uniform, though I kind of wish I did. But then again, I also love that I can be any sort of character I want - that's a little bit of the actress coming out of...

When you step inside a set and transform into a character, it's your first brush with that role. It doesn't matter who you have worked with. Every character will be a first in your life as an artiste.

Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information, including necessary information about a character's history. It can set the stage well for a major...

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character...

I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.

Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

When I write about Mickey Haller as the Lincoln lawyer, I totally see Matthew McConaughey because he took that character when that character was still fairly new to me - only two or three years old -...

I wanted to do a show about a character that was an innocent, and so I focused on a sea sponge because it's a funny animal, a strange one.

I want a part playing a really ugly geek, with no make-up and my hair all tied back, so I could just be a character without worrying how I look.

People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt...

The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else,...

I do not think that when I write a female character, I intend to reflect my thoughts on gender equality, but I always make sure that my female character is not decorative, they are human, they are...