Act Quote by Marshall Allman

I act according to the requirements of the character, and if I try to play the role, then I play it truthfully. In my…

— Donnie Yen

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that…

— Mia Wasikowska

Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you.

— Anonymous

You really have to be a character to serve it properly. Obviously, you're acting, but you have to have those things in yourself, whether…

— Greg Bryk

For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain…

— Salman Khan

As an actor, I function from a place of compassion and empathy - you have to believe 100 percent what your character is doing,…

— Clare Bowen

I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.

— Mike White

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

— Zoe Saldana

The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.

— Steve Zahn

Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that…

— Viola Davis

When you have a set of characters, you have to fall in love with them and care about them as each individual character.

— Tina Fey