Ally Carter Quotes

I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching this?' But if he's whispering, 'I don't really want to die,' there's a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.

All I've ever tried to do is play real people.

I'm just looking for touching characters.

I think you find universal truth when you get really honest with yourself and you can reach people. If you go deep enough, you have that core feeling, and that feeling can transcend the details of your experience.

There's something that's very human about 'Warriorv that brings you out. You're watching the movie and, yeah, there's fighting - there's a tournament at the end of the movie - but it takes a long time to get to know these people.

Some of the best actors think they're terrible; that's what keeps you connected to a vulnerability that makes it possible for people to empathize with you.

People like seeing people being human and real, and I think that's been lacking on TV.

I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be emotionally gripping, I needed to be in there somehow.

You play the honesty of the characters and show a side of them that people can relate to and want to get to know.

I'm interested in roles that are human, that have some sort of empathic quality.

I like to play people that are real, a real person, and then something that's interesting with that person. I think it's a lot more challenging to do that than something that's extremely fantasy-like.

In a world where irony reigns, where you have to separate, protect and laugh at anything that is honest or has an emotional charge, I bet for catharsis. I like to invest emotionally in things. And catharsis, when it touches the emotional vein, can open the doors of even those who protect themselves.

Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal.

Fiction, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy. It seeks to join, to merge, to know deeply; and, as with intimacy, there is a way in which it cannot be faked.

I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.

I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There's a broad spectrum of emotions.

They've turned this character into a human being.

I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.

I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?'

And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

My first album is a lot of my personal experiences. I wanted people to relate to what I've been through.