Whenever I approach any character, I try to find examples…

I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes, and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking…

— Rachel McAdams

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

— Martin Landau

I feel like with every character, you try to put yourself in that person's position and just completely use your imagination. That's what I…

— Elle Fanning

Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live.

— Denise Mina

When you take on a character you try and lose yourself into it because you want to be less self-conscious.

— Adrian Lester

“Who but a fringe character would try to impede the unimpeachable improvement of the world?”

— Dave Eggers

Of course, when you work on a character, you try to understand her. You feel that everything she does has a reason.

— Berenice Bejo

When I'm putting the character together I try to find music that I think fits the character.

— Ed Speleers

We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the…

— Gary Frank

As a writer, every time I create a character, I try to go for something to captivate the audience in some way. It's also…

— Paul Dini

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

— Illeana Douglas

For each character, I try to understand what is driving them.

— Dee Rees

I'm trying to look into each character and try to realize her as someone who is also me.

— Phillipa Soo

Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

— Lena Olin

“What I do in writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart, and skin of a human being who…

— Eudora Welty