Character Quote by Ed Helms

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

It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.

— Christian McKay

You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got…

— Ricky Gervais

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings…

— Edmund White

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

— Joanna Kulig

When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life.

— Michael Rapaport

If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely…

— Emma Thompson

The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of…

— Harry Lloyd

No matter what world you're creating, whether it be a real world or a fantasy world, you still have to make the characters relatable…

— David Nutter

Portraying a real-life character can be quiet challenging.

— Pratik Gandhi

I discovered that there was no difference between playing a real-life character and a fictional one.

— Parvathy

I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

— Taylor Sheridan