Chandra Wilson Quotes

I feel I have been playing all primary characters. And if your character forms a connect with the audience, it doesn't matter if you are playing only the main solo lead or a second lead.

As a writer, every time I create a character, I try to go for something to captivate the audience in some way. It's also an extension of how the audience would like to see themselves.

Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.

In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

To connect with the characters, you need to connect with the world. If the world feels vaguely familiar, I believe the characters will feel relatable.

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.

In terms of the parallels, I've never related less to a character than Riggan.

When a family film is done well, there's a character that every member of the audience can relate to. I want to be one of those guys.

You can't make the audience fall in love with a character you don't like.

Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have to listen to what are they saying and what they're communicating to you. And so, a lot of it is just getting stuff down.

It's very hard to connect with a character when you haven't gotten a sense of who they are.

Audiences need to engage with characters.

You have to present characters an audience can relate to.

For me, acting is like a pool you dive into. If you're lucky, you find what you need, then get out again.

If I wasn't an actor, I never would have known who Debbie Gallagher was. I never would know how her feelings are or how her emotions are, or her family.

It can be a fictional character and yet relatable... It always depends on the content of the film and what you are doing.

What I'm interested in as an actor is exploring universes that I have not come across before. It's interesting to me to be able to discover new things. I do like fantasies, and I like when film is inspiring and it puts creative ideas into the minds of the audience.

It's always exciting to create a character that people can relate to, where people are like, 'Oh, I know this dude,' but maybe you've never actually seen this type of character on TV.

The day the audience feel they are watching Parvathy instead of the character, that would be me failing as an actor.

Television is about identifying with the characters.

I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.

It doesn't matter how beautifully a film is photographed. The acting tells your story. It's what people relate to. If you don't believe the characters, it doesn't work.