If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.
Mercy Watson is a pig. She lives with Mr. and Mrs. Watson, who are not pigs. I had that basic premise, but I couldn't make it work. I would come back to it, try it, see that I was failing, and put it aside.
To be honest, I think I would like a really fun, quirky character with an interesting background.
I want to do more sci-fi films. I want to play half-alien, half-illegal alien.
In an early version of the story, I thought Aang could shepherd a herd of twenty bison.
I'll come up with an idea for a character, and I'll write some jokes and make sure that that character is going to have some legs to it - that it's really going to work. If I can come up with jokes and material that I think will work, then I make a cheap version of the doll. Achmed started out just being this little plastic toy from the store.
There is no creative process to come up with a character of Dean Ambrose.
I asked, 'What is this guy?' They said, he's part-fish, part-bird, maybe a bit of lizard, and you don't have to go through five hours of makeup to play him. That was good enough for me.
I thought it'd be interesting to play an off-centre character who doesn't have to be pretty.
I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
I don't tend to picture my characters as actors and actresses.
'Hedwig' was born in '94. I was thinking of a theater piece; Hedwig was one of the characters.
Blurryface is this character that I came up with that represents a certain level of insecurity.
I was a junior at school, and I had just taken my first comics class, and we were doing an exercise for this other class where we had to create our own characters, and 'Nimona' just kind of came out of that. I decided that I liked her so much that I wanted to do a comic with her.
Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn't at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept.
I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.
The JBL character, I had had in mind for a long time, a character very similar.
I tend to learn things physically - I guess it's my dance training. I never want to make too many choices too soon - so, while I am thinking about the character and thinking about her history, which is very vague in terms of what is given in the text, I am starting to have ideas about what her home is.
I get attracted to projects because of the script or the idea and the basic character.
With 'Rampart,' I read it and I'm like, 'That's the best role I've ever been offered. Phenomenal.' But, I was daunted, you know? Like the concept of trying to be a cop. It's just bizarre, man. Bizarre to even think about.
Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.
