Audience Quote by Brian Stokes Mitchell

I never tell who it is I base my character quirks on in case they get offended, but I do base them on real…

— Emily Blunt

Most of my major roles have been to play characters that the audience does not initially like or warm up to and then they…

— Robert Picardo

As as an actor, you have to be able to relate with the character and be able to create those little thing about the…

— Sanjay Mishra

There's a lot to be said for getting really comfortable in a character.

— Merritt Wever

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or…

— Mary-Louise Parker

You know, the hard thing about audiences not liking what a character does is that they sometimes take it out on the actor personally.…

— Linda Cardellini

As an actor, you don't want to ever get too comfortable where you're like, "I know this character," and you don't do the work…

— Shanola Hampton

For me, portraying a character is not about liking or disliking it; it's about meeting a challenge that's thrown at you.

— Manoj Bajpayee

You can't form a character without being completely comfortable with who you are as a person.

— Candis Cayne

As an actor, you don't want to ever get too comfortable where you're like, 'I know this character,' and you don't do the work…

— Shanola Hampton

I always tend to like the characters that I play. I'm convinced that I am this person and I'm OK with whatever they do.

— Mark Wahlberg

I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism…

— Alessandro Nivola