Brianna Hildebrand Quotes

When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well.

What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?

To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

What I love about my work is that I'm forced to look through my character's eyes.

You've got to empathize with every character you play.

It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.

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.

In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.

As a writer, it is always fun to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes.

If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.

I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.

When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.

When I write, I'm constantly putting myself in the position of someone else as I write using myriad voices; I think that's a life skill all people should learn.

When I'm composing a scene for the first time, I try to imitate my character. The less critical distance the better - particularly when they're acting badly.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.