Ellen Wong Quotes

I do feel like the end of 'Mad Men' is a sort of a coming of age.

Usually, at the end of a film it's like I've finally gotten to know this person completely, and then we're done. That actually happened on the set of 'Twilight,' and then it happened again on 'New Moon.' Each time my character Bella became a different person, and I got to know that person and take her to the next level.

No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.

I dig those kinds of roles where I have to dig down and find some internal motivation. I like tough roles.

I care more, and I think readers do also, for characters in a state of transformation.

I like being able to play women that are growing or aren't easy to love. Maybe they are really likable, but they're annoying because they're not tapping into who they're suppose to be. You're watching them, and you're like, 'Oh, why does she keep making this decision?'

Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances. I want my young friends to live like that, and I think they, too, have such a wish.

Week-by-week you grow with your character and it's an interesting challenge.

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

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.

Pippin chooses love and finds a greater sense of himself at the end of all the madness. I relate to him in many ways. I have been through stuff, thought I knew best, and often been proven wrong.

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

It's weird because I've grown up a lot after filming the first 'Hunger Games' movie. Growing up with a character is really interesting because you feel like you have this connection with the role.

I've lived a lot in the last 12 years or however long its been since Boy Meets World. I have a lot more to draw upon in playing Randy than I did playing Frankie. Although, I did have a lot of fun playing that role.

I think this movie, 'Moneyball,' symbolizes becoming a man for me, and I think my character becomes a man. It's important to me: I'm becoming a man. I'm taking my life seriously. I'm taking my acting really seriously, and it's important for me to play adults. It's important for me to change and develop as I get older.

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.