Attitude Quote by Dana Carvey

The voice is always the starting place for me with a character.

— Rebecca Hall

I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff. It's…

— Guy Pearce

Sometimes you even start to sound like the character, because you're living and breathing them every day on the set. It gets into your…

— Richard Dormer

People probably have different philosophies about this, but I think that when you're first shaping the play and trying to find a character, the…

— Lynn Nottage

I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.

— Chris Cornell

I think everything you do, characters I always find, have their own voices and once you establish who that character is you find a…

— Guy Ritchie

It's through the voice that I tend to figure out the character (and through dialogue that I come to understand other characters).

— Teddy Wayne

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.

— William S. Burroughs

To me the voice has always been the way to start any character. Once I find that, I'm good to go.

— Lucy Alibar

I try to keep my voice natural for each character, but the spirit and the cadence and breathing for each character is totally different.…

— Finn Wolfhard

Characters begin as voices, then gain presence by being viewed in others' eyes. Characters define one another in dramatic contexts. It is often very…

— Joyce Carol Oates

When I write characters, I need to hear their voice. As soon as I get them speaking, and I feel how they use language,…

— Dana Spiotta