Explore 'Characterization'-Themed Quotes & Sayings

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

Jeanne Moreau

I also try very hard to create characters – both heroes and villains – with psychological depth.

Jeffery Deaver

I don’t worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.

Matt Dillon

Once you start writing a character visually, you’re in trouble.

Melissa McCarthy

Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.

Lily Tomlin

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

Michael Scott

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role.

George C. Scott

Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed.

Walt Disney

The life of a character doesn’t just exist between action and cut.

Walton Goggins

Like anything, you’ve gotta find the humanity in the characters.

Holliday Grainger

Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.

Jack Woodford

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

Harper Lee

When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.

Hayao Miyazaki

I create a playlist for each and every character that I play.

Adhir Kalyan

When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.

Alanna Ubach

Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.

David Cameron

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

Kevin Hart

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

John Millington Synge

It’s not enough to picture their outward appearance. Give them a background and sphere of influence.

Jordan Dane

I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I’ve really had.

Aziz Ansari

As an actor, anything that you have to help get you into character is helpful.

Scarlett Johansson

You have to make sure you have the characters you want. That’s really the most complicated part.

Joan Didion

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

Andrea Arnold

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