Character Quote by John Lloyd Young

When you write a show, every character is you to some extent.

— Courtney A. Kemp

Sometimes I will read the whole script just to see what my character is doing, but I won't touch a script that I'm not…

— Gabrielle Dennis

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

— Liev Schreiber

One of the interesting parts of being on a television show is you often don't know the fate of your character until you're reading…

— Chris Messina

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

I usually read a script from an audience perspective first, and then look more closely at the character only.

— Colm Meaney

When I take on a role, all I tend to do is get to know the script and ask millions of questions, and keep…

— Sophie Okonedo

You can reveal yourself on stage in a way that you can't on TV. If you drop a character on TV, it's death. Each…

— Ben Miller

The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

— Eddie Marsan

I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part…

— Anjelica Huston

My job as an actor is to serve the script. If I'm looking at it as to see what the best character is, then…

— Frank Grillo