Influence Quote by Michelle Dean

Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely…

— Keira Knightley

Often you find the character through the things they say. How they talk about other people, how they describe themselves - which is very…

— Richard Armitage

You don't go around thinking about how characters in a movie, in the stories you make up, relate to people in general.

— Ethan Coen

When it comes to thinking about how a character talks, there are literary and language considerations. For actors to be able to differentiate between…

— Mike Leigh

Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.

— Jeff Perry

There are many actors I know who are not talkative.

— Divya Agarwal

A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than…

— Hayden Schlossberg

As as an actor, you have to be able to relate with the character and be able to create those little thing about the…

— Sanjay Mishra

I think it is kind of important to direct someone so the character is appealing, but, as an actress, I find it frustrating because…

— Romola Garai

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

— Tom Wilkinson

Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking (because of…

— Elizabeth Bowen