Character Quote by Zoya Akhtar

In order to inhabit a character, you've got to embrace and empathise with them.

— Willem Dafoe

You can be empathetic to a character in a book in a way that you can't with a real person, which is weird, because…

— Hank Green

To write convincingly, I think you must be able to relate, in some way, to what a character is experiencing.

— Emily Giffin

I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation.

— Randy Harrison

Definitely, my approach is me-oriented. I feel like my job is to safeguard the believability of the emotions of the character.

— Casey Affleck

Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.

— Mia Wasikowska

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and…

— Kimberly Elise

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

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

— Julia Roberts

You've got to empathize with every character you play.

— Ross Lynch

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

When you truly empathize with someone, you have to take into account all the things that make that person who they are.

— Tarana Burke