Dove Cameron Quotes

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

There's no way for me to know, but my best guess, as it must be for everyone, is that other people are pretty much like me.

I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.

When you are playing someone who is dealing with issues on a really personal level, if you don't bring your own issues into the equation, it's not going to feel really personal to the people watching it.

I think each person you play has a little bit of you in it - you can't really help that.

I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.

There's a little bit of me in everybody that I play.

My experience is that the universal is the personal. If you can get past your navel-gazing into the deepest part of yourself as a writer, you find everyone - we're all there.

I think I find a commonality between characters and the different sides of myself.

And whenever you feel that essence in another, you also feel it in yourself.

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable. In some ways, we have similarities, but in other ways, we're completely different. It's hard to say because I'm an actor living in a world where we're all pretty privileged, and this guy is fighting for his life. They're very different circumstances. Within those circumstances, there are probably ways that we react to certain situations that are similar.

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

Even when I do roles that are really profoundly abusive, like, I would say, in 'Deadwood' - there's a guy who's a breeding ground for ignorance and hurtful behavior - the fact that people are so taken aback by that is a good thing because they're looking at themselves, and there's a part of me in there, too.

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

Although my stories are all very different on the surface, I like to write stories about characters struggling with big problems. I'm always reminded, no matter how different from me one of my characters is from me on the surface, how we're all pretty much the same underneath.

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.