Behave Quote by Keira Knightley

“Audiences often ask if characters are based on real people. Indeed the impulse of the amateur is to write about who one knows. The…

— Anonymous

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

— Rachelle Lefevre

I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that…

— Adam Driver

I don't write a whole lot about one person that exists in reality; it's usually characteristics of different people that I combine into a…

— Jason Isbell

If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely…

— Emma Thompson

Well you have to do a tremendous amount of research and if you're playing someone who's a real life person, especially someone who's alive…

— Michael Sheen

I try to look at every role the same way, regardless of whether the character is real or the character is a fantasy. I…

— Chadwick Boseman

I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have histories and…

— Jonathan Evison

When you're training as an actor, a lot of the big work you're learning is to treat fictional characters like real people. You don't…

— Toby Jones

It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons…

— Brenda Blethyn

You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got…

— Ricky Gervais

I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect…

— S. E. Hinton