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Anybody who works with me knows this: I always repeat wardrobe in my characters. We're trying to play real people.

— Busy Philipps

A big way that I express myself is through what I wear and how I present myself. I think that's an important part of…

— Angourie Rice

You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it,…

— Iain Banks

You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene…

— Chris Cooper

The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less…

— Gary Cole

As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

— Chuck Jones

When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.

— Ben Schnetzer

In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.

— Billy Strayhorn

When you're a child, and you're growing up, and you're mimicking a certain character, or you're trying to live and breathe a certain character…

— Cole Sprouse

I think you have to experience life and then pull certain experiences into your act and your character's life, whoever you play, so you're…

— Jimmy O. Yang

There are some times you win, and there are other times you build character.

— Bob Coy

I cannot explain my plays. Each must find out for himself what is meant

— Samuel Beckett