Emily Deschanel Quotes

One pleasure of working on a trilogy is watching characters warp and grow over time.

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

I think everybody goes through changes, and the same should be said for fictional characters, especially ones that you follow on television.

There's something pretty awesome about staying with a character and growing.

I look for roles where there is some kind of an arc to the story.

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.

My character on 'The Good Wife' is a smaller character, and his story arcs are typically season-long, unless it's a big episode for him. His transitions take place over many, many hours.

I'd never really been in a series, where you see a man at different points and perspectives in his life. Usually it's a film, where I'm playing a character who just comes in and offers something up.

After a while, the character sort of took over.

Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.

Being able to stay with a character over the course of years is a gift.

In TV, you may think your character's one thing for two episodes, and then the third episode it could be something different.

With a series, you build the character as you go. When you've got a shorter project or a film, you know the overall arc from the beginning.

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

I love playing Blair Cramer, and I'm thrilled to see what more they have in store for her. After playing this role for so many years, I still feel like there is so much about her that is still untold.

The loveliest roles, for me, have a growth arc - a beginning, a middle, and an end - and I'm always grateful when I can find one of those emotional journeys.

The Duffers like that; they like watching their characters grow.

We did so much work developing the character of Kratos, why would we throw all that out? We're sort of treating the first seven games like chapter one of this character's life.

The Woman' came off the back of a film called 'Offspring' in which I played the same character.

As you do on any cable series, if they introduce you as the villain, then you better start working towards making him a really good guy, or if they introduce you as a really good guy, then you better start working towards being the villain. Your character has to go somewhere, or else they become very uninteresting.

Audiences are just like us as writers - we grow attached to characters. In certain ways you don't want them to change.

In film, because you know where the ending is, characters can change, but in television, you substitute revelation for change, and that can be hard to pull off.

I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.

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.

In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book.