Able Quote by Angelina Jolie

It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.

— Nell Freudenberger

I examine other people's characteristics, so when I'm playing characters, I don't always have to make them me; I can transform into others.

— Marcia Gay Harden

You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.

— Sophie Marceau

I usually base my characters on composites of people I know. One trumpet player in SIDE MAN is really a mix of four different…

— Warren Leight

If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of…

— Hugo Weaving

I can't really do characters. I don't do voices.

— David Baddiel

Most of the characters I'd played were so different from me, so far from me that I had to transform.

— Lance Reddick

It's always hard for a writer to make herself into a character; I had to figure out what my defining characteristics were, and that's…

— Jesmyn Ward

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are,…

— Thomas Middleditch

The reason I never wrote a novel is that I don't have what it takes to write characters, so they would all be talking…

— Wim Wenders

From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that's fantastic for me.

— Stephen Chow