Character Quote by Willem Dafoe Download Open image “In order to inhabit a character, you've got to embrace and empathise with them.” — Willem Dafoe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Embrace Embrace Empathise Empathise Got Got Embrace Inhabit Inhabit Character Order Them You
You have to be able to get inside the heads of the characters and completely sympathize and understand them — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
You can't form a character without being completely comfortable with who you are as a person. — Candis Cayne Copy Share Image
If I'm honest about the people that I love, then I need my characters to live through the same things that the people I… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see them as… — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
When you have a set of characters, you have to fall in love with them and care about them as each individual character. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do. — Nadia Bjorlin Copy Share Image
I do tend to have characters that I guess are in some way loners or dealing with obstacles that they have to confront that… — Craig Gillespie Copy Share Image
You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
But if you can empathise with a character and if you can emotionally resonate with that character and understand their emotional journey, I think… — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
I was doing community theater, and I was always interested in acting, but I was also interested in sports. I was interested in a… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
I knew very little about 'Spider-Man'. I grew up more in the 'Superman' generation. 'Spider-Man' - I didn't know so much. But it is… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in talking about what I do. And I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Mounting those red stairs [in Cannes] is something I've done with a very different intention many times. So it's interesting any time you witness… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
For every role, you have to always find a different way to approach it, one that's specific and suits what the key is. Every… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions,… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment. — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
![“Mounting those red stairs [in Cannes] is something I've done with a very different intention many times. So it's interesting any time you witness those shifts of perspective. The beach scenes were also fun. It felt very strange and very theatrical to kind of commandeer it and have La Mer booming…” quote by Willem Dafoe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/66b/willem-dafoe-4486_beach_mounting-those-red-stairs-in-cannes-is-s_175324.jpg)
