Character Quote by Jonathan Bailey

If the story is insensitive to a person and is not nuanced enough, that's a story I don't want to be a part of.…

— Rasika Dugal

So, it's always different. Some stuff, you want to do because it's a part that you've never played. It's always for story. Sometimes there's…

— Vincent D'Onofrio

You play the honesty of the characters and show a side of them that people can relate to and want to get to know.

— Brian Tyree Henry

You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.

— John Malkovich

Not every character that you play is going to be somebody that you like or love, but every character that you play has a…

— Sterling K. Brown

It's what people have always done. They have always told stories, put on plays. It's characters and narrative and thought and context and resolution…

— Ken Loach

It's very hard when you're doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way…

— Lily Rabe

It's a great luxury to have the writer with you on a new play because you can write and re-write, just trying to get…

— Richard McCabe

One of the fun things about play is making up stories...

— John Lasseter

You can live vicariously through the characters you play.

— Charlize Theron

If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out…

— Tom Stoppard

You're always fighting the contradiction between the supposed intimacy of a two-person conversation and the blunt reality that you're trying to sell the play…

— Wallace Shawn