Character Quote by Henry Cavill

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

— Anonymous

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

I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a…

— Meryl Streep

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

— Parvathy

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.

— Andrew Sean Greer

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

It can be a fictional character and yet relatable... It always depends on the content of the film and what you are doing.

— Kartik Aaryan

I feel like there are things I can relate to in every character. But I feel like when you read a script, you don't…

— Martin Starr

When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a…

— Ed Helms

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and…

— Richard Bach

You can be empathetic to a character in a book in a way that you can't with a real person, which is weird, because…

— Hank Green