Backgrounds Quote by Adina Porter

The main character in the book is usually someone you're identifying with because the story is being told through this person's mind.

— Jay Asher

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he…

— Charlie Chaplin

For me, with any character, there are different ways that you approach understanding him, and in this film in particular, because I had the…

— Asa Butterfield

I'm interested in what actors reveal about themselves through the structure of the character.

— Ira Sachs

Shakespeare gives you these clues - these little pieces of gold dust, I call them. They tell you so much about the story, the…

— Christian Camargo

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

— Anita Desai

As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer of the character. And that's what used to draw me to scripts...something in a woman…

— Vera Farmiga

As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to…

— Radha Mitchell

A lot of what you're seeing these characters go through is something that either is a story one of the actors told in the…

— Jay Ellis

So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to…

— Adrian Lyne

Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books.

— Mark Lawrence

A lot of times in films, the protagonist is either the leader of the group or the nerd of the group. I've never identified…

— Max Joseph