Character Quote by Billy Bob Thornton Download Open image “Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.” — Billy Bob Thornton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Thinking
I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much more of… — Brady Corbet Copy Share Image
When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to. — Daniella Alonso Copy Share Image
I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can develop in… — Regina King Copy Share Image
As a writer, you understand how hard it is to build up backstory for characters, so you can have impactful moments. You have to… — Cory Barlog Copy Share Image
Detailing and backstories are so important; only they draw you into the life of a character. — Richa Pallod Copy Share Image
I try to construct some kind of backstory for my character so that I have an idea of the life of that character -… — Carol Kane Copy Share Image
I never feel a huge need for backstory in my novels or films. Quick sketches are often enough. When you encounter people in life… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
You wanna do a lot of backstory for your character - as an actor, you wanna research that. But on the show, it's fun… — Alison Brie Copy Share Image
I love making the backstory for myself. I think it's important. Every part I play, I work on the backstory. If it's fully written… — Jeffrey DeMunn Copy Share Image
I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's described in… — Sean Bean Copy Share Image
Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them. — William G. Tapply Copy Share Image
Robert Duvall taught me years ago. He said, "You know theatre is not real. I don't like plays." You know, he doesn't like plays.… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I think I fully commit myself to any role to the extent to which I can. In other words there's some roles that maybe… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Heavy role in the movies that I've done that I have loved and fit my soul; A Simple Plan, Monster's Ball, Sling Blade, One… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career, except for when I've worked with the Coen brothers. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I always have an idea before we even start the movie because if you hire the wrong person, within a couple of days you're… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South ... I'm… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
