Character Quote by Jim Cummings

In our parts such characters sometimes turn up that, however many years ago you met them, you can never recall them without an inner…

— Nikolai Leskov

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.

— William S. Burroughs

It's through the voice that I tend to figure out the character (and through dialogue that I come to understand other characters).

— Teddy Wayne

The voice is always the starting place for me with a character.

— Rebecca Hall

There are a million little things, but one of the best ways to get to know characters is to just put them in situations…

— Greta Gerwig

You just have to kind of remember that it's just a character on TV. A lot of times people just forgot that and it's…

— Michelle McCool

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.

— Paul Auster

It's really an organic sort of process. You start off with the character on the page. You fall in love with that character and…

— Ioan Gruffudd

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again,…

— Joel Coen

I think everything you do, characters I always find, have their own voices and once you establish who that character is you find a…

— Guy Ritchie

I find the voice is what I look for first and foremost with just about every character I play.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies in the back stories of these characters.

— Joe Murray