Character Quote by Raye

I lay and cried, and began to feel again, to admit I was human, vulnerable, sensitive. I began to remember how it had been…

— Sylvia Plath

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's…

— Albert Finney

Character is who you are under pressure, not who you are when everything's fine.

— Ritu Ghatourey

In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place.…

— Mercedes Ruehl

“The narrative compression of storytelling, especially in the movies, beguiles us with happy endings into forgetting that sustained stress is corrosive of feeling. It's…

— Ian McEwan

I'm very interested in dysfunction. I kind of realized in my first film that a character with so much rage that she didn't know…

— Karyn Kusama

Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.

— LaToya London

I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a…

— Terry O'Quinn

I'm happy when people come up and say how they feel about what your character went through, you know, I went through and it's…

— Kimberly Elise

There's a certain amount of joy in playing a character in the moment and not knowing what's going to roll out as it goes…

— Liam Cunningham

I have been through and seen so many dramas and traumas and been in so many situations that I can probably interpret a few…

— James Arthur