Anything Quote by Richard Roxburgh

You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a…

— Gene Wolfe

“i believe that true character gets revealed in actions, not in what someone says about him or herself.”

— Morgan Parker

You have to be willing to expose yourself, at least to yourself, to get to some kind of truth about a character.

— Ed Harris

You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react.…

— Richard Dean Anderson

You have to believe that you are the character or the thing or whatever the hell you're playing.

— Chris Penn

You reveal your own character most clearly when you describe someone else's.

— Nicky Gumbel

A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

— Jack Kirby

A character is as much about what you do as what you say.

— Darren Boyd

“Things that only a writer would understand—you’re writing a character—you tell that character who she or he is and they stop you and make…

— Lisa Marbly-Warir

I never set out to make any statements about a specific character, I just set out to tell what feels like is a truthful…

— Lena Dunham

The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your…

— Edward James Olmos