Shweta Menon Quotes

The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.

I've got a theory with each character I play. Regardless of the actions that they do, I, as Jake, have to like these people. And I have to say, 'I wouldn't mind hanging out with this guy for an hour and a half.'

I think every actor injects some of his own personality into his parts. There's a great deal of myself in McCoy, a great deal of Bill in Kirk, and a great deal of Leonard in Spock!

I guess, as an actor, you have to bring something personal to the character - you've got to identify and love one element of the character, or else you can't really inhabit and find ownership.

As you live with a character longer, you claim more ownership over it. You become more defensive of it. It becomes like a person that you know.

I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially-fraught free throws.

If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.

I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.

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.

People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.

Every writer has characters that they become attached to and that they feel very strongly about.

You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd.

Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why.

I really felt good after working in a film like 'Piku,' as many people could relate to my character. I got letters from my fans telling me how my character resembles to their grandparents.

In terms of the parallels, I've never related less to a character than Riggan.

I'd never played a character as long as I played Poussey. Spending time with her, so much time embodying that character, it was so - and still is and always will be - so special to me and a part of who I am.

I want to create a TV show that people will watch and say, 'Hey, I have a favorite character,' or 'Hey, that person reminds me of myself,' or 'Hey, I've made some of those same mistakes, or those are some of the things I've dealt with.'

You always hope that people will fall in love with the characters you play, the way you do yourself.

When I think of all the Hamlets I've seen, there's been a load of different styles, some marvellous. You like the Hamlet you saw when you were the right age to think you could be Hamlet.

My experience is that there's absolutely a correlation between the enthusiasm within an animation studio for a given character and the enthusiasm the audience feels when seeing the movie.

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

As an actor, you always want to root for your characters.

I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something that I can understand about each character's behavior.

I had a strong visceral reaction to the 'Moonlight' script, partly because I felt I knew all of these characters.

Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that you're depicting.