Element Quote by Padmapriya Janakiraman

It's one thing to play a character that's fictitious - it's quite another to play somebody that is alive and well.

— Sherilyn Fenn

When you play a person who exists in real life, it is different than when you play fiction.

— Joanna Kulig

When you play somebody's life, everything about your likeness, everything about the way you talk, whatever, has to become that person.

— Tyrese Gibson

In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

— Brian Boyd

I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you…

— Carla Gugino

If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely…

— Emma Thompson

When you play a real person, you feel a sense of responsibility that obviously you don't feel when you're playing a fictional character.

— Natalie Dormer

Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.

— Stanley Tucci

The thing is when you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or book to script to…

— Alex Pettyfer

Sometimes I like to think that characters you play are all the other people you could've been in a lifetime.

— Mia Maestro

“It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who they most…

— Alain de Botton

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

— Alphonse Karr