Character Quote by Shigesato Itoi

Characters I create are just mixtures of the people I know.

— Taika Waititi

I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.

— Peter Carey

I want to play characters that are real, that have depth in them.

— Suniel Shetty

My characters are based on people I know, but not in a direct way.

— MacKenzie Scott

“Audiences often ask if characters are based on real people. Indeed the impulse of the amateur is to write about who one knows. The…

— Anonymous

Well you have to do a tremendous amount of research and if you're playing someone who's a real life person, especially someone who's alive…

— Michael Sheen

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's…

— Derek Jacobi

I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

— Beau Bridges

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know…

— Cassandra Clare

It's fun to play a character that you can identify with.

— Sriti Jha

But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these stories that…

— Jim McKay

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and…

— Jordana Brewster