Character Quote by Jason Jones

I've never really played everyday people. I've played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters.

— Sandrine Bonnaire

Ive never really played everyday people. Ive played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters

— Sandrine Bonnaire

I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a…

— Nicolas Roeg

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

In the two or three or four months that it takes me to write a play, I find that the reality of the play…

— Edward Albee

But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these stories that…

— Jim McKay

When you're doing a play that's fully produced, you have the benefit of rehearsing for four or five weeks, so you really get to…

— Carrie Preston

Portraying a real-life character can be quiet challenging.

— Pratik Gandhi

A show could be 10 minutes, seven minutes, 94 minutes. We just need to tell the stories that need to be told.

— Nancy Dubuc

I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.

— Taylor Sheridan

Most of the roles I've had, usually the story's about how the man affects my character.

— Shiri Appleby

“Audiences often ask if characters are based on real people. Indeed the impulse of the amateur is to write about who one knows. The…

— Anonymous