Act Quote by E. G. Marshall

You can start imagining all kinds of things characters would feel, but you have to have a sense of whether those imaginings might be…

— Jennifer Egan

When I read something, first I have an instinctual, emotional response to it. But of course, acting isn't only just feeling an instinct for…

— Joan Allen

If a character dies, you should feel that. If a character accomplishes something, you should feel that. That's where you try to find that…

— Lorenzo di Bonaventura

In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place.…

— Mercedes Ruehl

When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes…

— George R. R. Martin

I think it's very much a sort of inner feeling that you get when you figure out exactly what that character is thinking. And…

— Elisabeth Moss

When I get excited about a character, I'll start doing things as the character and thinking about what the character would do.

— Brigid Brannagh

Sometimes I think too much, or sometimes I don't think enough as the character. Sometimes you just miss a moment, or sometimes you hear…

— Taissa Farmiga

I don't theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing…

— Jill Clayburgh

As a storyteller, when you see somebody who is the character you envisioned, you feel this energy in the room.

— John Singleton

Do you know how writers often say the characters take over... But that is more or less what it always feels like to me,…

— Wes Anderson

When I know what the character I'm supposed to play wants in general terms, and when I know what did the other characters want…

— Max von Sydow