Character Quote by Sam Shepard

In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of…

— Sam Shepard

All of my plays are deeply autobiographical. But it's not straight autobiography.

— Stephen Karam

No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the…

— Elizabeth Bowen

A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop…

— Orlando Bloom

I'm not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don't need to have been a…

— Bill Nighy

I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals. If they…

— Sefi Atta

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

— Dario Argento

It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book ever happened…

— Harper Lee

I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that…

— Edward Albee

If you're playing someone who has lived, there's the risk of imitation, or whether you focus on the essence of who that character was…

— Hayley Atwell

Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to…

— Adhir Kalyan

I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write…

— Tom Stoppard