Always Quote by Anna Boden

It's a lot of feelings, I think, when people so strongly associate an actor with a character they play - but the main feeling…

— Liza Weil

Sometimes, as actors, we feel like we want to hold on and control where a character goes.

— Corey Hawkins

I suspect, for a lot of people who become actors, there's a feeling of wanting to be someone other than who they actually are.

— Ben Mendelsohn

Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I…

— Patrick Marber

I think there are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. We romanticize everything about people in…

— Charlie Kaufman

Your body is not your own when you are acting in a film. It becomes your character's body. Everyone sees you like that and…

— Konkona Sen Sharma

A lot of the time you find that elements of a character are brought out by the actors playing them.

— John de Lancie

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

— Richard Dreyfuss

When I'm writing novels, even screenplays, it's never an actor I have in mind; it's always the version in my head of who the…

— Jonathan Tropper

It's funny how that comes up, because sometimes I'll write something and I'll think, I don't know if that's a film or a play,…

— Neil LaBute

Every time you go into a movie, you go into the point of view of who it is about.

— Oliver Stone

As actors, we have to take characters, and we have to feel for them and ultimately become them, and share that on screen so…

— Ross Butler