Kassie DePaiva Quotes

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.

I've often said the reader knows every bit as much about Thorne as I do. When I created him for 'Sleepyhead,' I was determined he should be a character who would develop, book by book, change and grow as we all do, and who - crucially - would be unpredictable.

For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.

There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving.

I'd never really been in a series, where you see a man at different points and perspectives in his life. Usually it's a film, where I'm playing a character who just comes in and offers something up.

It is quite different, but I love doing a series because you get to live with a character for a much longer amount of time. And the other aspect of it is that you have a steady job.

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

I'd never thought much about a series, because I liked the idea of picking a script I liked with a character I thought I could sustain for an hour. In a series, you live with one character day in and day out - and you only hope it will be one that will not drive you crazy.

There's something pretty awesome about staying with a character and growing.

Well, I don't think characters change. I think they become more revealed. I don't think you really can change a character on a show.

I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

I am fine playing 'Law & Order' and even the 'Jurassic' movies to be straight up, as far as the characters being portrayed there, but I never want to stay in straight-up land too long. I always wanted to do something where the character's world gets to be explored.

What's fun about doing a series is you get to take some time to create the character.

I love doing a series because you get to see changes in a character and see her grow. It's a journey with change, and you don't get to see that long-term type of development with just a film.

Whenever you're blessed and given a second season, you can really let the characters evolve. That first season, you're setting everything up. It's background, where they're coming from, what they want to do. And then you get to marinate in it that second season.

For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.

Alison Carr on 'Homeland.' She was such great character to play, so clever and full of surprises. I was sad to see her go.

My only criteria while selecting roles is that it should be a lead part in an interesting story where the character has depth and layers.

In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.

I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.

My character on 'The Good Wife' is a smaller character, and his story arcs are typically season-long, unless it's a big episode for him. His transitions take place over many, many hours.

Mostly, I have to say as an actor, to find a character that's been rich enough for 10 seasons of shows... that's very rare.

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