Character Quote by Chris Zylka

I always do make a back story for myself, but I'm not sure how necessary it is. I just like to.

— Gena Rowlands

I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

— Bill Nighy

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

I always panic on the first day of work. You can do all the Stanislavsky-backstory homework, but when that moment arrives and you are…

— Richard E. Grant

I always work from back-story, that's what I always do, so you get a character, and you think 'OK, who's this guy, before the…

— David Morrissey

I do build my own backstory as an actor. It's important to know where your characters have come from in order to know where…

— Sarah Gadon

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

There were a couple times when we started working out the stories - and I was doing this with Jim Vallely and our friend…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

I think back story can help guide your choices, but when you're playing a scene, you're not making choices; you're just intuitive.

— Willem Dafoe

At drama school I learned the Stanislavski technique, which uses sentimental memories and bits of your past to put real emotion into the scene.

— Daniel Mays

All I have tried to do as an actor is push good story telling.

— Tovino Thomas

I always do stories that I believe in, characters that I find interesting, and directors who I want to work with. All these factors…

— Anushka Sharma