Eric Bischoff Quotes

You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.

Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.

We weave our real lives into our WWE lives. We just look at what's happening in our lives, and what can we do? What's the most annoying - as a bad guy, as a villain, what's the thing we can do to make people hate us?

It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.

There are writers out there who say they're writing a second series, and then you pick it up and it feels exactly the same, only the lead character is blonde instead of brunette.

I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.

On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character.

I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there.

I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.

The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.

In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories to tell.

I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.

A lot of times, scripts are written so the character is all one way. Even with 'Bringing Out the Dead,' the character was written a little more generic.

Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.

In a way, the characters often do take over.

The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.

The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.

The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird.

When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

The scene is never really about moving the story forward on 'Breaking Bad.' That's the functional veneer of the scene, but it's always about what's going on with the characters.

We felt we had to know something of his back story. I don't think people in the cinema would just accept that he's there. I think we had to learn how he (got there).

I used to watch dailies and felt I had to keep on top of the character, but I don't feel that any more.

For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.