Kyle Mooney Quotes

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.

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.

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

I hope to create characters that people want to watch - and they either want to be or are, or it's something that they recognize.

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.

When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should be able to draw an audience into the character's world and make them feel their fears.

I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.

And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

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?'

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.

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

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.

Audiences need to engage with characters.

You have to present characters an audience can relate to.

Whether it was 'Gangs Of Wasseypur' or whether it's 'LSTCK,' the characters are real, and when you see them on screen, you can identify with them.

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.

If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen if we've moved beneath the surface.

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.

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

In terms of the characters I think are really fun to play, a lot of times it's someone in my head saying 'I know that woman.'

I always have a contract with a character. Even when he's unappealing. The contract is to give him his due. To tell his story. And to keep his secrets.

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

If you can't laugh at your own characters, or shed a tear for them, or even get angry at one of them, no one else will either.