Character Quote by Peter Graves

When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.

— Candice Patton

That's a discovery process. That's the terrifying and wonderful part about getting picked up to series. You get to develop the stories and talk…

— Chuck Lorre

You have to find out how to become the character.

— Kara Hayward

Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with…

— Salman Rushdie

I always say it takes three weeks to know a character and three months to own it. And I think that's probably true of…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

It's funny: it takes a while to really get your character. It's impossible to do it on the first day. That's the same way…

— Bill Skarsgard

Start as early as you can. Make tapes of your characters.

— Tara Strong

I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how…

— Joanna Trollope

What's fun about doing a series is you get to take some time to create the character.

— Russell Hornsby

For someone who gets into the character and shoots for long hours, it is pretty difficult to cut off from the character and return…

— Ravi Babu

You have to bring yourself to a character.

— Russi Taylor

Sometimes you can incubate a character and that can take me a month just sitting on it imagining it, doing everything from sketching it…

— Rebecca Hall