When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound... →
Irvine Welsh
I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.
Ming-Na Wen
A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.
Timothy West
Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image.
Scott Westerfeld
That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters.
Joanne Whalley
People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.
Kevin Whately
Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what... →
Ben Whishaw
I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play.
Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
Edmund White
Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic... →