Creed Bratton Quotes

I love rehearsals and I love creating a character, sticking with it until you have something to tell. It's always different though. Sometimes a director will tell you from day one what they want. Then you throw in your idea.

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

For me, as an actor, the most challenging thing is creating the character in the beginning because you have to write their backstory. The easy part about doing a sequel is that you've done the film, so you already know their backstory.

I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

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 you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.

I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

Character is plot, and casting is character.

What's fun about doing a series is you get to take some time to create the character.

You have to start from a place of trying to create a character.

When I'm breaking in a character like Jessica Jones, I have this amazing opportunity to create her backstory. It's all of the work that happens before I'm ever on camera... Writing 'Bonfire' was like doing all of that fun stuff; it was like 300 pages of prep work.

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

When you get a character that you're just starting to work on, it's the most exciting and most terrifying feeling because you have endless hours of diving in, researching, reading, and decision-making.

Whenever you have a role where you don't get to know anything about the character, you have to invent it yourself. You have to feel like it came from somewhere.

Like any other actor, I also look for good scripts and want to portray some memorable characters on screen.

I really wanted to create some of my own characters, then it became wanting to act the parts, then it sort of grew from there because I really enjoyed doing it.