Judy Greer Quotes

When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them.

It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.

There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving.

I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there.

Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going.

Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.

The most I could hope for is to come and try and develop a character who is interesting, who is interesting to me, who is interesting to fans and who could contribute to the storytelling that is 'Law & Order: SVU.'

'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.

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

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

As an actor, you want to be able to move your character forward into new ground, but also it's really interesting to go backwards and unpeel those layers and the interesting elements of what your character is and what informs the decisions that you make so that you can have as much meat to work with.

Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard.

For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.

Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.

When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as many different avenues as you can in order to make it a fully wounded character.

For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.

It's always nice to do the flashbacks. That's what's so great about 'Scandal' is that we get to do flashbacks and then keep figuring out and discovering more things about our characters that make them fuller.

I honestly feel it is important for a director to get obsessed with the characters.

It's always incredible though when you feel like the writer knows the character intimately and can see their life sprawling away outside of the show.

I build my characters from the day they're born to the first page of the script.

Every character, for me, is a new discovery.

There is nothing like being able to develop a three-dimensional character over a long period of time. Sometimes you aren't able to fully portray a character because you only have a couple of scenes to do it in, and you don't get the full life and background of that character.

As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.

In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.