Books Quote by Tom Sturridge

“Sometimes you can tell all you need to know about a person just in the way they ask the question: politely, or with genuine…

— Deborah Lawrenson

Often you find the character through the things they say. How they talk about other people, how they describe themselves - which is very…

— Richard Armitage

Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

— Alan Rickman

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

— Anonymous

No matter what character your play. I feel like whenever anyone is honest and whole and well-written, you're going to be able to connect…

— Ellen Page

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

— Matthew Nable

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

— Matthew Nable

When it comes to thinking about how a character talks, there are literary and language considerations. For actors to be able to differentiate between…

— Mike Leigh

Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's described in…

— Sean Bean

Insight into character comes from listening intently to the spoken word. The physical person, their charisma, charm and dramatic flair is more often used…

— Maximillian Degenerez

The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They…

— Julian Barnes

I do think there's a relationship between a book and a reader that's more intimate, in many ways, than the relationship between an audience…

— Sarah Ruhl