Character Quote by Bryan Cranston

When you play a real person, you feel a sense of responsibility that obviously you don't feel when you're playing a fictional character.

— Natalie Dormer

Playing a real-life character is definitely a lot more responsibility than one that is fictionalized.

— Lacey Chabert

There is a sense of responsibility when you play a real-life character because there are people who will see your work, make comparisons, and…

— Rajkummar Rao

I think there's a responsibility to any character that you play that was a living persona.

— Genevieve O'Reilly

When you play a character that exists or existed, there's a stronger responsibility that you have. You owe that person and then you owe…

— Johnny Depp

There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is…

— James D'arcy

Non-fiction is a big responsibility. Rationality. Facts. The urgent need to reflect some small aspect of reality. But fiction is a private autism, a…

— Katherine Dunn

If you're playing someone who has lived, there's the risk of imitation, or whether you focus on the essence of who that character was…

— Hayley Atwell

When you play a person who exists in real life, it is different than when you play fiction.

— Joanna Kulig

You have respect and reverence for your characters and the fact that you're going to epitomize that person for the rest of their lives.…

— Aaron Eckhart

I don't see anything wrong in playing a non-fiction character.

— Mohnish Bahl

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

— Kevin Bacon