Character Quote by L. Todd Rose

When you approach it, and I hate sounding like the pretentious actor, but yeah, I think you have to find things within the character…

— Steve Carell

I think one thing that's always a concern to me is you see a role, and you're not seeing the character; you're seeing so-and-so…

— Debra Granik

If the reader doesn't care or relate to the characters, all that visual spectacle is pretty but feels empty.

— Cliff Chiang

I always get sort of an image of what the character is gonna look like and then I kind of go with it.

— Joel Kinnaman

That's one of those things that will really hurt me personally, if I label a character or think about what it might do if…

— Luke Wilson

I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.

— Lisa Kudrow

For me, portraying a character is not about liking or disliking it; it's about meeting a challenge that's thrown at you.

— Manoj Bajpayee

I feel this way about a lot of movies, that the characters are idealized versions of people. For better or worse, I am as…

— Greg Mottola

I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters…

— Rick Moody

You can't be too concerned with the philosophical meanings of the character and how it will affect everything else.

— Cameron Monaghan

I think if you're too embroiled in the need to relate too closely to the character, then you start to judge the character for…

— Cate Blanchett

I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.

— Steve Buscemi