Character Quote by Mark Haddon

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

— Illeana Douglas

There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone I know…

— Stephen Graham

I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters.

— Sune Rose Wagner

It's very hard to connect with a character when you haven't gotten a sense of who they are.

— Jared Harris

My characters all have issues, but I don't see that as weird or abnormal because I think in real life there are very few…

— Sophie Hannah

Sometimes you walk away from playing somebody and you think, "Wow that was far as from my own experience as I can possibly be."…

— Kevin Spacey

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You always want to put your character through different experiences and see how it shapes their worldview.

— Mary Wiseman

People relate to my characters and see me in a different way. They identify with me and remember the nuances of my characters.

— Kartik Aaryan

At times it's been weird because for the first phase of my career, I've been really well-known for a character that I was so…

— Anonymous

I relate to those characters - and any character I play - in as much as I put myself in their positions and feel…

— Nathan Fillion

I actually see myself in all my characters. In order to imagine what it feels like to be another person I have to use…

— Elizabeth Strout