Character Quote by Jena Malone

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

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

It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in…

— Cameron Crowe

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

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your…

— Edward James Olmos

My role is to just tell the highest degree of truth with every character and every story. From there, I have no clue whatsoever…

— Sarah Shahi

I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups…

— Mark Haddon

You have to find something you relate to in every character.

— Aya Cash

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

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

— Arjun Mathur

Like anything, you've gotta find the humanity in the characters.

— Holliday Grainger

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