Vicky Kaushal Quotes

I like characters who remind me of someone I know.

The Big Chill is one of those things that everybody can identify with. Between eight characters, they can pick somebody who's somewhat like them.

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.

You want people - I want people to relate to me as a character. I want them to go, 'That could have been me,' or, 'I know someone like that.'

I just look for characters I can relate to.

Well, it's probably not something I'm conscious of, but I do gravitate towards characters that are kind of like me.

I believe that if writers want their readers to care about a character, they have to care themselves. I have to root for a detective who screws up as much as Thorne does, who shares my birthday, my North London stomping ground, and my love of country music, both alt and cheesy.

I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.

Somewhere, the audience relates to my characters and their vulnerability. I believe they see themselves in me.

It's fun to play a character that you can identify with.

I read to see myself in other people's lives.

I always want the audience to identify with my character in some way. I mean, sometimes you'll get characters that aren't very identifiable. Sometimes you can't relate to your character at all.

You have to find something you relate to in every character.

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 try to find some similarities between myself and the characters, even if it's the tiniest thing.

I loved playing Shaun, he's not that different from me.

Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

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.'

When I read a character that I really, really love, I know immediately what they look like. It's like I want to 100 percent become that person.

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

When I approach any script, I always try to find what I would relate to most in it.

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

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.