Always Quote by Richard Jenkins

Actually, I get a little say in what my character would or wouldn't do.

— Steve Burton

You can't make a character do something they wouldn't do.

— Claire Messud

Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I…

— Barret Oliver

So many times, you get a script and it says, "And then, the character cries," and you read the lines and think, "That would…

— Shailene Woodley

Any characters that make me think, 'I don't know if I can do this,' are the ones I most want to do. I don't…

— W. Earl Brown

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

— Joyce Meyer

With my characters, I prefer to not say too much, and in fact, I tend to cut down some of the lines in most…

— Peter Stormare

Everytime I read a script now, I am able to imagine my character in multiple ways, which I present to the director or the…

— Pratik Gandhi

Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all…

— Viola Davis

If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that's way beyond what you've ever seen me do, but if…

— Morgan Freeman

There are scripts when you fall so much in love with your character. And if you are lucky and offered this part, you should…

— Sofia Vassilieva

It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.

— Reese Hoffa