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I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.

— Samuel L. Jackson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about.

— Antonia Bird

I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves.

— Amy Carlson

To create a fully formed character full of life, struggle, and humanity is tough.

— Roberto Aguire

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.

— Cassandra Clare

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

— Ann Brashares

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

— William Ellery Channing

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.

— Jason Dohring

The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text.

— Donald Pleasence

I start with an idea or a problem or a conflict, or even a situation that might be pertinent to the lives of young people, then the characters grow from that point. I try to make strong characters that change and develop and learn from their mistakes.

— Sharon Draper

My school of thought with going into a character is that you have to understand where they come from, and you have to empathize with them.

— Rose McIver

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