John Green Quotes

I love reading for a character I have no business reading for.

I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me.

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.

I think people are getting into these 'Empire' songs because of the emotional investment they have in the characters. You kind of feel like you know the songs already because you just watched them play out in front of you with these characters.

I love Elektra. I really have a special place in my heart for her. It was very enjoyable for me to discover her and to adapt her for this project and bring myself to this character. So I have a special spot for her.

Usually viewers are attached to a character or that character's personality. But, in my case, I have been exceptionally lucky as I have been accepted as Shweta.

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

I don't think I can play a role without falling in love with something about her; even the most despicable people who I have portrayed had some aspect of them which I found beautiful.

You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.

I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

It's hard to be scared if you don't feel for a character, because you don't care if they die or live.

Well, it's difficult to fall in love with a character when you just read the pilot. You don't really know who the character is.

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.

Action shouldn't just be seeing all those crashes. You can blow up a cathedral; next time you blow up the Great Wall of China, and then what? But when you're in love with your characters, the smallest action becomes an important action.

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.

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

I don't think a character that you played for even eight years ever leaves you.

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 confess, I'm one of those actors who finds it incredibly hard to divorce myself and my performance from the work itself.

The more time you spend with any character, whether it's from a comic book universe or a really naturalistic universe, the more time you spend, the more that character just becomes another aspect of yourself.

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

Certain characters get to me and stay with me for a while.

I can't imagine writing a screenplay where I didn't feel deeply connected at some kind of visceral level to the material.

There's something so great when you're watching a movie when you slowly get to know somebody more, because it's like a real relationship.