Actors Quote by Keenen Ivory Wayans

As an actor, I have to watch people and observe their behaviors - this is how I create characters.

— Josh McDermitt

It's almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors.

— Doug Liman

As actors, we have to take characters, and we have to feel for them and ultimately become them, and share that on screen so…

— Ross Butler

My own personal process with movies is to develop the characters with the actors and, when I've done that properly, you can't imagine anyone…

— Doug Liman

I don't slot actors into the image of a character that's already built. I build characters by listening to the voice and the story…

— Takashi Miike

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

You work with each individual actor as you perceive their needs to be. It's something that you've figured out in the weeks of pre-production.

— Rebecca Miller

I think that's the great thing about acting: you get to play different characters and enhance one part of yourself to really bring that…

— Danielle Campbell

Actors come in, and they have their own take on things, and you have to adjust on the fly to make sure everything still…

— John Requa

As the actor, you just have to believe in what your character is doing in order to play them.

— Kristen Bell

The most important thing you can do as an actor is bring as much of yourself to the character to ground the character in…

— Michael Kelly

What I try to do is give each actor an environment in which they can do their best work.

— Curtis Hanson