Abyss Quote by Brion James

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him…

— Hal Holbrook

I think you've really got to cling to what makes sense to you. Obviously, I'm not a serial murderer in my real life, so…

— Jamie Dornan

When I'm playing a serial killer, I'm in it. I'm not judging him. I'm not judging his environment. I'm just looking for the why.…

— Dylan McDermott

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must…

— Arthur Miller

It's extreme. The character comes back from the dead, and, at first he doesn't know where he is, how he got there.... How does…

— Brandon Lee

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits…

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

A lot of times when you do things where you're killing people, the character is always having an existential crisis about it. It's fun…

— Rose McGowan

The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

— Flannery O'Connor

You meet people and you hear the way they talk and the way they behave, and that subconsciously gets fed into the characters you…

— Steven Knight

Whenever we've approached a story, it's always started with the character, and the idea of some character struggling with some part of himself. That's…

— Anna Boden

I always thought what an interesting idea because almost everybody's fascinated by the perpetrator of a crime; very few people study what happens to…

— Clint Eastwood

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to…

— Lee Tergesen