Peter Mayhew Quotes

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It's much more like when you're a kid putting on a character.

I think it's fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With 'True Blood,' you're not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.

Acting gives you freedom to express your thoughts.

There are things you can say in the voice of a fictional character that you could not explore any other way.

For as long as I can remember, I was always creating random characters.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation.

I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told.

I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh with a new setting, time period and cast of characters, getting to see the world through a completely different lens each time.

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

The great thing about animation is it's like the radio. I used to do lots of radio when I was a kid, and you get to play parts you would never get to play ordinarily.

When you have a script, and you're discussing what it can be, and who going to play what role, that's a kind of like a fantasy football game. You can imagine these different dream teams interpreting these characters that only exist in your head.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film or TV script based on prescriptions, on other peoples' ideas of what character should be.

I'm great at telling stories with the kids. I do all my different accents. We make our own stories up all the time, the four of us, me and Hannah and the kids.

I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.

I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.