Amber Benson Quotes

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

It's a lot harder to write a story that's compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves.

I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years.

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what's happening inside this particular person.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.

The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it's sometimes found and sometimes not.

I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

However, for my characters to have depth, they have to be human and complex, have both qualities and flaws, do the right things at times, and at others, things they'll regret having done and not necessarily know how to undo.

Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and deeper into a person.

I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.

I feel like I've been able to grow personally because of playing SpongeBob.

So Kratos is always angry, and he spent a considerable amount of time after 'God of War' trying to be away from people and trying to figure out how to get control of that. So it is this kind of internal struggle for him at all times.

I think the thing about keeping your character fresh is, when you change as an individual, you have to flow with it.

It's a real luxury to be able to develop with your character.

Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

I think that all of the scars and all of the layers that I've built over the years made me the person that I am today, and I'm pretty happy about that person.

Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.

I don't care about a golfer. I don't care about getting better as a golfer. I want to be better as a person.