Actor Quote by Joel Coen

A lot of what you're seeing these characters go through is something that either is a story one of the actors told in the…

— Jay Ellis

The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot…

— Terry Pratchett

A lot of the time you find that elements of a character are brought out by the actors playing them.

— John de Lancie

The first thing that happens is the cleansing of the former character. I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there…

— Vin Diesel

You write a character, but in essence, it's just a concept of what it could be, and then actors come in and they have…

— Panos Cosmatos

As a writer you see the big picture and how you can tell as one character, how your storyline is going to meet up…

— Richard Dormer

I have been through and seen so many dramas and traumas and been in so many situations that I can probably interpret a few…

— James Arthur

Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors. They bring…

— Charlie Kaufman

I believe that every character I create is in their own film, that happens to overlap with the main film. There are complete and…

— Ana Lily Amirpour

When you are reacting to a good actor, your reactions become better. You get to know what to tone down and how to make…

— Abhishek Banerjee

You have a lot more leeway to be contradictory playing a character than most of the scripts have in them. That's how all actors…

— Joel Kinnaman

Characters begin as voices, then gain presence by being viewed in others' eyes. Characters define one another in dramatic contexts. It is often very…

— Joyce Carol Oates