Character Quote by Jesse Eisenberg

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes,…

— Karen Allen

I think that playing characters far away from who I am as a person is a lot more fun and a lot more exciting,…

— Lindsay Pulsipher

I just love playing characters that are a long way away from me.

— Dorothy Atkinson

Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is…

— Al Pacino

Becoming the character you are playing might work for some, but for me, it doesn't. I always maintain a gap between myself and my…

— Jaideep Ahlawat

As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.

— Billy Bob Thornton

You have to play the character in the best way you know how and do what you need to do in order to bring…

— Emma Stone

A lot of time, the characters I've played in the past kind of come out in me in situations when it's very useful.

— Miriam Shor

You have to play your characters, not like them.

— John Malkovich

Don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.

— Toni Collette

Every so often you get to play wonderful characters maybe at the wrong time in your life. Sometimes, you get to play terrible characters…

— Jude Law