“I never liked the whole idea of [creating your own] background, if it's not pertinent, where the character lived as a child, and who I was and how I was. That never helped me in any way, so I don't even do that.” IfsWayChildrenIdeasWholeCharacterCreatingBackgroundsPertinent Author:Maria Bello
“I love taking on challenges. I think one of the funnest things in acting is creating a character - wrapping yourself around a character and bringing him to life. I love a lot of different genres. I'm not a big horror guy by any means but I love the challenge. But the fifties and sixties is where I feel the most comfortable.” ThinkingFeelsMeanDifferentCharacterBigsGuyChallengesActingHorrorComfortableCreatingGenreSixtyWrappingDifferent Genres Author:Drew Waters
“I've sort of prided myself on playing characters with conscience. The first way I go about creating a character is looking at that area of conscience. What have they done, and what has it cost.” WayFirstsDoneCharacterCostCreatingConscienceAreas Author:Lorraine Toussaint
“I definitely wanted to pay homage to what he did and use his performance in the first one as a foundation. But, I had to make it my own. I couldn't sit there and try to imitate Michael Clarke Duncan. I think that would have been disastrous. I had to make it my own. I tried to take as many nuances that he had with the character and utilize them as best I could, while creating a character that was unique to me. That's going to happen, no matter what.” ThinkingTryingFirstsHas BeensMatterCharacterUseHappensWantedMy OwnPayCreatingUniquePerformancesNo Matter WhatFoundationNuanceHomageDuncan Author:Dennis Haysbert
“I don't know how to play myself. I'm not interested enough in myself. That's just not how I was educated. That's not how I learned to become an actor. Acting is creating a character.” KnowsEnoughPlayCharacterActorsActingKnow HowCreatingEducatedNot Interested Author:Corey Stoll
“My record label, which is a huge record label who represents massive, massive stars - they've never done anything like this before, and they were so excited about this idea of an animated character which is singing legitimate music. It's not a comedy record, it's a legitimate record. And they really jumped on board. So, we've got our Facebook page up, we'll be jumping on Twitter very soon, and sort of be creating Haley outside of American Dad.” IdeasDoneCharacterStarsRecordsComedyHugeDadCreatingPagesSingingExcitedLabelsBoardsMassiveJumpingAnimatedRecord LabelsHaleyFacebook PageAmerican Dad Author:Rachael MacFarlane
“I'm completely in control of creating my photographs, and I'm not always in complete control of creating a character. It's more of a way to express myself than acting is, by far.” WayCharacterActingCreatingPhotograph Author:Alexandra Breckenridge
“You definitely do not do films for that particular reason. You do them for yourself, for your satisfaction of creating this thing with characters and watching these characters take on real life - that's all you care about.” RealReasonCharacterCareFilmParticularCreatingSatisfactionReal Life Author:Clint Eastwood
“Creating a world that reflects the inner voyage of our characters was really important. Also, because this isn't a black and white show, and this isn't about bad guys and good guys, but it's about good men being capable of bad things and vice versa, I wanted to be in a city that had contradiction.” MenWorldImportantCharacterShowsWantedGuyBlackWhiteCitiesCreatingCapableVicesContradictionGood ManBad ThingsBlack And WhiteBad GuysVoyagesVice VersaGood Guy Author:Veena Sud
“I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.” ThinkingMeanHas BeensMadeCharacterEgoCreatingAlbumsAlter EgoCreating Characters Author:David Bowie
“Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.” WritingBookIdeasCharacterHappensGrowsCreatingChaptersHandful Author:Lily King
“The Illusionist is the storyteller in so many ways. Symbols become his obsession. It's not simply about creating plot - one must also grapple with theme. Nowadays we have a lot of characters and a lot of action but it's hard to sit still and really meditate on meaning, worldviews, concepts, ideologies even. I make my Illusionist do what I've had to do, often with copious amounts of stumbling and frustration. His real humanity comes from being an artist, I think - his creativity is what makes him a man.” ThinkingMenWayStillsRealHardCharacterActionArtistHumanityCreativityAmountCreatingConceptsObsessionIdeologySymbolsThemeFrustrationPlotStorytellerWorldviewBeing An ArtistStumblingIllusionists Author:Porochista Khakpour
“Creating things. I love the idea of creation and creativity. Whether it's a character, a short film, a piece of music, a painting, or a bookcase - to watch something go from an idea to a creation is pretty much where it's at for me.” IdeasCharacterFilmWatchesCreativityPiecesCreationPaintingCreatingThings I LoveShort FilmsBookcasesCreating Things Author:Eric Lange
“I think everybody came into it with the understanding that they would go through an experience that is literally not by the book, that is not executing the script and then going home, but living and breathing these characters and being in the moment with each other, and improvising and creating a lot of present-tense intensity between characters.” ThinkingBookMomentsCharacterHomeUnderstandingCreatingScriptsBreathingIntensityTenseGoing HomeImprovisingExecutingPresent Tense Author:Oren Moverman
“The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now. I will be in it, if I'm the best man for the job, but it really is about creating characters and shows.” IfsMenCharacterShowsJobsActingCreatingCreating Characters Author:Jason Gann
“I really enjoy just being an actor. It's fun to be surprised by someone else's writing and to collaborate in creating a character and to leave all the hard decision-making to some other room full of suckers!” WritingHardCharacterActorsFunEnjoyDecisionRoomsCreatingDecision MakingJust BeingSuckerHard Decision Author:Andy Daly
“I think it is all about creating characters, mixing them up with the stars and the light-years, and coming back to Earth, because we're from this universe. We're not just New York or London; we're stars.” ThinkingYearsCharacterLightEarthUniverseStarsNew YorkCreatingLondonComing BackMixingLight YearsCreating Characters Author:Benjamin Clementine
“We leave Scarlet Witch without a home, without a family, and she ends up creating a surrogate family within the Avengers and making a decision to be a part of the team. I think a lot of that has to do with what Jeremy's character - like his attitude towards her and the speech he gives her at the end of the film. So we pick up with her having started a new life, but still trying to figure out what her abilities are and if using them causes greater good or greater damage.” IfsThinkingGivingTryingStillsEndsCharacterHomeFilmCausesAbilityDecisionAttitudeGreaterTeamFiguresSpeechCreatingPicksDamageWitchNew LifeScarletGreater GoodAvengersSurrogates Author:Elizabeth Olsen
“If I'm creating a new superhero, it shouldn't be any different from other superheroes in terms of the qualities. Obviously the personality can be different. I think traditionally in comics women have tended to be a girlfriend or the daughter of whoever, whether it's even Batgirl as Gordon's daughter, or whatever. There is that relation of the hero, you know, like Superman's cousin, Supergirl. And that's great. It's fantastic to have a link to these amazing characters, but I kind of like the idea of things being something in their own right, which is why I've always loved Wonder Woman.” IfsThinkingKnowsKindIdeasDifferentCharacterTermQualityWonderPersonalityHeroCreatingDaughterRelationFantasticGirlfriendLinksSuperheroCousinWonder WomanSupergirl Author:Mark Millar
“I think it's the source material. 27 Dresses was a famous book, and Devil Wears Prada was also a wonderful book, so it's coming out of the novelists who are really creating these wonderful female characters that we want to see on the big screen.” ThinkingWantBookCharacterBigsWonderfulMaterialsSourceCreatingDevilFemaleDressesScreensNovelistsComing OutFemale CharactersBig ScreenPradaFamous BookDevil Wears Prada Author:Jerry Bruckheimer
“That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things in order to tell a story and we thought the poets could learn from fiction writers something about developing a character over time who wasn't just you and also creating a narrative structure.” KnowsCharacterStoriesOrderFictionKnow HowPoetCreatingStructureDevelopingNarrativeFiction WritersNarrative Structure Author:Edward Hirsch
“I love the process of creating a character; someone entirely different from myself, and depicting it, either on stage or screen.” DifferentCharacterProcessStageCreatingScreens Author:Amanda Schull
“Everything was just so spot on and character-building for me in terms of creating Celia [Bryant]. The ability to get to wear all these vintage pieces and immerse yourself in that world and get to wear all these amazing hats. And the shoes!” WorldCharacterTermAbilityPiecesBuildingCreatingShoesSpotsHatsCharacter BuildingVintageCelia Author:Lily Collins
“I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn't you.” FeelsPersonsImportantCharacterCreatingDistanceRehearsal Author:Morgan Saylor
“My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating.” FeelsCharacterStoriesVoiceReaderCreatingLoyalPublishers Author:Jennifer Weiner
“The editor, Stephen Segal, actually called me with the idea of creating an accordion book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"], and asked if I could write a story for it. I was so intrigued! I immediately knew that it had to be a love story told from the points of view of the two main characters. Right away, I started working on a proposal. And once I had my main characters, Brendan and Evelyn, it was as though they started telling me their stories.” IfsWritingTwoBookIdeasCharacterStoriesViewsCreatingPoint Of ViewLove StoryIf I CouldEditorsProposalIntriguedMain CharactersAccordions Author:Theodora Goss
“Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors. They bring an enormous amount in creating these characters, and creating the dynamics between the characters that you've written.” MindCharacterActorsWrittenAmountCreatingProductionsEnormousDynamics Author:Charlie Kaufman
“To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake, and if anything I've always steered a bit clear of that kind of thing, because it seems gimmicky to play around with text rather than do the work of telling a story and creating characters.” IfsKindPlayCharacterStoriesSeemsBitsFictionClearCreatingSakeExperimentsNot InterestedCreating Characters Author:Steve Erickson
“The process of acting is no different [playing human or ape]. You're embodying the character. You're creating the psychology and the physicality. You're living the moment.” HumansDifferentMomentsCharacterProcessActingPsychologyCreatingLive In The MomentApesPhysicality Author:Andy Serkis
“Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on set - if you don't get it on the day, in the moment, on set, in front of the camera, with the director and the actors. The emotional content of the scene and the acting choices.” IfsMomentsCharacterChoicesActorsActingFrontsEmotionalPlanetsSceneDirectorsCreatingPerformancesCamerasTranslateApesFacialAnimator Author:Andy Serkis
“I'm starting to be a lot more comfortable with allowing people to decide for themselves and almost creating a situation that forces people to decide for themselves whether they like it or don't like it or agree with the character or disagree with the character.” PeopleCharacterForceSituationComfortableCreatingAgreeStartingAllowingDisagree Author:Will Smith
“What I really like is the marriage of both [writing and acting] - for instance, with Postcards. I don't actually act in it, but I worked on it with Mike [Nichols] as I went along, creating the character, so it was a bit like acting for me.” WritingCharacterBitsActingCreatingInstanceMikePostcards Author:Carrie Fisher
“When you think about the person responsible for creating the character and the dialogue, Bill Monahan, who's a Boston guy, obviously, his words roll off my tongue quite nicely.” ThinkingPersonsCharacterGuyCreatingResponsibleBillsTongueDialogueBoston Author:Mark Wahlberg
“I like writing dialogue - I can hear my characters so clearly that writing dialogue often feels as much like transcribing something as it does like creating it.” FeelsWritingDoeI CanCharacterCreatingDialogueWriting DialogueTranscribing Author:Lauren Grodstein
“By sharing an experience, or creating an experience that we all go through where the character survives - though not easily, I always say that it's victory at a price - does give people hope.” PeopleGivingDoeCharacterVictoryCreating Author:Danielle Steel
“Get out of the office. Roam the frontline. Be observant. Hold your people accountable for creating the new narrative, a new story, in which your customers are the most important "characters". Because, you know, they really are.” PeopleKnowsImportantCharacterStoriesOfficeCreatingCustomersNarrativeObservantFrontline Author:Michael J. Silverstein
“I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.” ThinkingTryingI CanCharacterStoriesCan DoChallengesRolesWatchesTvsCreatingFascinatingCreating Characters Author:Tatiana Maslany
“I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.” RealCharacterMoralRelationshipPersonalityCreatingEthicsAspectReal LifeNot AfraidAnchorsEthics And Morals Author:Corin Nemec
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” LoveInspirationalCharacterSufferingGreaterCreatingCapacityOvercomingTransformationEndureAuthenticityNovelistsSympathyBad AssCriminal MindAuthentic SelfHigher PowerCondolencesCapacity To LoveMy SympathySympathy CondolencesAuthentic LifeWorld SufferingDeath CondolencesSuffering And DeathInspirational CondolencesFuneral SympathyCreating Your Life Author:Ben Okri
“Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.” WayCharacterUseTypeCreatingAnother WayCreating Characters Author:Lily Tomlin
“I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.” ThinkingWorldChildrenCharacterYoungEasyVoiceImaginationCreativityChildhoodCreatingVery HappyPlaces To GoHappy ChildhoodCreating Characters Author:David Walliams
“I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.” CharacterNatureNew YorkBirthCreatingJewLensesNeuroticCreating Characters Author:Len Wein
“Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.” WorldTryingCharacterJobsChallengesWalkingComfortableCreatingBest Work Author:Felicia Day
“I'm definitely more of a 'think game' kind of girl. I'll read every single dialogue and codex entry and lore entry. I really do love projecting myself and creating my character.” ThinkingKindCharacterGirlGamesCreatingDialogueEntryKind Of Girl Author:Felicia Day
“I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.” YearsDifferentCharacterFilmLibertyRolesCreativeCreatingStuckGoing OutDifferent Characters Author:Malin Akerman
“The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.” CharacterStoriesGamesIndividualNovelHeardReaderCivilizationCreatingUnderstoodWesternParadiseContractsImaginaryInventingTelling StoriesWestern Civilization Author:Carlos Fuentes
“There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.” CharacterObjectsDramaQuietCreatingPreparedClashCollisionSusceptibility Book:Middlemarch Source: Middlemarch
“I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.” PeopleKnowsBookIdeasCharacterStoriesSimpleBrainCreatingSupposed To BeIdentificationLikeable Author:John Green
“I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.” CharacterSceneCreatingNarrativeNot Interested Author:Lydia Davis