Always Quote by Katie Kitamura

To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.

— Jamie Dornan

I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something that I…

— Paul Rudd

I like a role where some of the character's motivations are confusing or at least interesting.

— Florence Pugh

It's important to me that I need to know what my character is about.

— Sameera Reddy

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

— Andrea Arnold

There are some indications of how the character should behave based on the script, and then as actor makes it his or her own.…

— Jesse Eisenberg

To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

— Michael Emerson

Building a relationship with the character. It's just like sitting with someone you know. It's very easy to predict when they're going to shake…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

I'm a person who really likes to understand motives - the inner motives and the inner personalities of persons. Why do people do some…

— Dror Moreh

I try to discover the character's primary motivation. In a screenplay, you can make up a hundred different variables of a character. Is he…

— Kurt Yaeger

Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step…

— Karen Traviss

With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are.

— Rachelle Lefevre