Character Quote by Edward James Olmos

I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able…

— Shemar Moore

I just have to focus on staying truthful to my characters and depict their reality as authentically as I can.

— Arjun Mathur

In order to make characters real - no matter what the character is doing - you have to see yourself as capable of having…

— Regina Doman

To me, truth is the big thing. Constantly you're writing something and you get to a place where your characters could go this way…

— Quentin Tarantino

For me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.

— Shemar Moore

A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

— Jack Kirby

You have to be willing to expose yourself, at least to yourself, to get to some kind of truth about a character.

— Ed Harris

The thing is, even if you're playing sort of a heightened character and playing inside sort of a heightened reality, you can still apply…

— Johnny Depp

The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.

— Lynn Nottage

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

— Andrea Arnold

I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have histories and…

— Jonathan Evison