Luke Kirby Quotes

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are.

The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives.

If you're dealing with a character that actually exists, there's an awful lot of information there. So, you can put together, from the information, motivations, insecurities, reactions. Where does that seed get born, if you like?... What I do is put that together.

It's nice to take the gloves off, to really examine your character's desires and goals.

I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something that I can understand about each character's behavior.

It's great to be able to play the 'bad guy' role, because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always looking at the why - how does a person get to that particular point.

Interviewing someone is very similar to preparing a character, isn't it? You're just asking questions: 'Who is this person? Why did they make that choice? Why are they doing that?' You're being Sherlock Holmes.

When I act, I try to understand the character, why she's behaving like that.

With any role I play, I find out what the human problem is first.

As an actor, you have to find reasons why your character made her decisions, and you have to empathise with her.

For each character, I try to understand what is driving them.

I loved everything about being ten, eleven, and twelve years old, and seem to make most of my heroines and heroes that age so I can reexperience all those pitfalls and wonderful discoveries. It helps me to figure out my own life when I write from that eleven year old place!

I teach children to be winners.

For me, in any story that I take, the antagonist is more interesting and multi-dimensional.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

What drew me to Batman in the first place was Bruce Wayne's story, and that he's a real character whose story begins in childhood. He's not a fully formed character like James Bond, so what we're doing is following the journey of this guy from a child who goes through this horrible experience of becoming this extraordinary character. That, for me, became a three-part story. And obviously the third part becomes the ending of the guy's story.

Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.

At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

A lot of your personality is formed before you're 12, obviously, but only a few of my plays use characters from my childhood. The more mature plays are affected only by my adult experiences.

Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.