Across Quote by Alex Pettyfer

When you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or book to script to film. If I…

— Alex Pettyfer

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you…

— Janet Montgomery

Once the writers got to know the actors, they would include certain things - personality-wise - for the characters because they knew you liked…

— Retta

When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in…

— David Tennant

When you play somebody's life, everything about your likeness, everything about the way you talk, whatever, has to become that person.

— Tyrese Gibson

If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself.

— Juan Diego Solanas

I believe that every character I create is in their own film, that happens to overlap with the main film. There are complete and…

— Ana Lily Amirpour

Whatever character you play, whatever film it is, whatever story it is, for me, in my training it's always something that gives you a…

— Julia Ormond

In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real…

— Flannery O'Connor

You don't go around thinking about how characters in a movie, in the stories you make up, relate to people in general.

— Ethan Coen

Normally, if you play a part, you have the words, and you invent the personality out of your experience, your knowledge - your life,…

— Barbara Sukowa

A lot of times, in film and TV, they just want you to play yourself. But, when you're someone who's more of a character…

— Carrie Preston