Jim Carrey Quotes

I really loved making 'A Walk to Remember', so I'm not afraid of making smaller films. But for me, I just need to connect to the characters.

It's always difficult to say goodbye, especially when one has spent a long time - literally years, in the case of a series - inside a character or two, suffering and celebrating with them.

I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.

Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them.

The most emotionally connected I've ever been to a character is Natsuki in 'Summer Wars.'

It's difficult to just let go of a character. Especially after you've been preparing and researching for weeks.

Certain characters get to me and stay with me for a while.

You relate to a character and you find that character within yourself. It's all parts of me. I don't leave characters behind. I just let them go.

You couple that with how I looked when I was younger, and growing up... The voice is not quite breaking. It's awful. No, I don't enjoy that at all. But that's one of the things people love and find so endearing about the Harry Potter series, and why they've lasted so long. Because people have grown up with us, and they care about the characters. They're not just some characters in the film, they're people you can relate to, and you care about, and you grew up with, and when they die in this film, people feel it!

The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one. They are born of our imaginations, carry much of ourselves in them, and embody whatever dreams we dream of immortality.

Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there.

Sometimes I'll be fifty, sixty pages into something and I'll still be calling a character "X." I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking. Then I start to love them. By the time I finish the book, I love them so much that I want to stay with them. I don't want to leave them ever.

I never, ever do a film and just kind of move on. I think of them as children of mine, and you don't give birth to a baby and just leave it on someone else's doorstep. You see it all the way through college.

My thumbprint is on every single thing that happens with Hellboy. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do professionally, letting someone else draw the main Hellboy comic. He's so much mine. But I still have no intention of ever handing over the writing of the main Hellboy comic to someone else. That character is my baby.

Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world or a character. They do become our best friends. I've probably spent more time with them over the past 22, 24 years than I have spent with most of the real members of my family.

It's hard to play a continuing character like Loomis for nearly 11 years and simply wash your hands of him. It seems a pity.

If you don't invest in the characters, you don't care if they get killed. It's more fun if you know them.

When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these characters.

Sometimes I pretend not to look at my own characters, because that's like different people getting off with your girlfriend or something.

When you have a set of characters, you have to fall in love with them and care about them as each individual character.

You never feel lonely if you're writing, because you're living with all these characters in your head.

I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.

When we start shooting I don't have rehearsals with characters at all. So, rather than pulling them towards myself, I travel closer to them; it's very much closer to the real person than anything I try to create. So I give them something but I also take from them.

Cry Baby is just a character in this world that I'm trying to create, and the music videos are really important to me, and I've fought to obviously get all of them approved.