I just let the character speak to me and things appear.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.
I can always see something of myself in the characters I play.
I can picture the character in my head, and the voice just comes out.
Sometimes I'll get a premise, you know, for a book. In fact, I get those quite often. And I don't commit to it until I really know the voice of that character. It's almost as if the character is speaking to me.
One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what they do.
I try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it.
I can't act, and so I have to live that particular character in my real life and then exhibit it on screen.
I tried to copy some of his mannerisms at first but it didn't work. And then I just let the spirit of the character grow in me and it just took its rightful place. I started to speak the lines and it felt right.
You have to show the character is confused or scared or happy through your voice instead of with your face and body.
For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for the most part, my characters go along with it. I write intense character sketches and long, play-like conversations between me and them, but they stay out of the book writing itself.