Walt Disney Quotes

Very often the characters people respond to best have little parts of reality they can relate to.

I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.

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.

I loved the challenge of being able to take a character who could be thrown away as 'crazy' and making her identifiable to the audience - also, to give her a vulnerability that people would cheer for.

On a superhero show, you have to have people who are really human and who have the experience the audience is having.

Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed.

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.

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.

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.

When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.

We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate.

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.

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.

I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in.

You have to present characters an audience can relate to.

People relate to my characters and see me in a different way. They identify with me and remember the nuances of my characters.

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.

. . . I felt that making her one-dimensional would be an insult to the audience, and also not as interesting. All destructive people have an inner side to them, and the more three-dimentional your characters are on screen the more compassion you can open up in an audience . . .. To me, that involves the audience more, it stimulates them and asks more of them.

It was easy for viewers to identify with our show. The characters were believable.

I don't try to intellectualize characters too much. But I always think of the audience. I always make sure that my characters are likeable.

My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.

Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.

At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work.

Even if the character is something that seems ridiculous on paper, there's a human element to everything. Otherwise, we don't connect with it.