Any Quote by Joanne Harris

All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.

— Rick Riordan

You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to because it's…

— Adam Haslett

I'm not a person who goes out of my way to change my look. I like my characters to look as natural as possible.

— Fahadh Faasil

There are bits of me in all my characters.

— Chris Lilley

I examine other people's characteristics, so when I'm playing characters, I don't always have to make them me; I can transform into others.

— Marcia Gay Harden

There's me in every character I put on the pages.

— Jacqueline Woodson

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

— Chadwick Boseman

I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.

— Jorge Amado

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock…

— Joel Edgerton

I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in…

— Jack Kirby

I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or…

— Nelson DeMille

I always try to bring a little bit of my own personality to the character, or some sort of personal connection makes it a…

— Mark Wahlberg