Abraham Benrubi Quotes

There's some of me in all my characters.

There are bits of me in all my characters.

I do not believe that with a fictional character you can force yourself too far away from yourself. There has to be some of you in it.

I don't believe you just create a character out of thin air, there's always something of yourself you bring.

There are fragments of me in all my characters.

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.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

I like to think I put some of myself in every character.

I put a lot of myself into my characters when I write.

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

I made Tony a person. For me, Tony was real. I made him become a human being, and that affected the animation and everything.

You spend so much time writing a character the way I did with Buddy Baker and then Green Arrow that you start to care about them. And you almost think of them as people, you know?

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.

I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.

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'm writing a story, which takes me a year or more, I can feel my character living with me - they're responding to whatever funny, familial, or social situation I'm in, and I think about their responses constantly.

I always find stuff in my characters to relate to.

I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an existing story, is immensely exciting, terrifying and ultimately rewarding.

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.

I just let the character speak to me and things appear.

In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.