What is Character?

What is a character?

Character to me means: a human being that IS who they are now by the events in their life up until this very moment, which is the present.  The present is where people can "live in the moment", which I am sure is a term you have heard.  A human being is affected every day by the life they live, or have lived.  It affects our egos and, in turn, changes our lives. Our ego is what creates our thoughts in turn creating our future.

Now, there are many roles you may not have to do a lot of character work for at all.  Your "character", YOUR past, may be perfectly fine. You do not need to make any adjustments.  Your ego will work perfectly fine as this character.  That doesn't take out the fact that the scene needs to still be made personal to you.  You will still have to make the truth out of the lines.  I will still need to see a relationship between you and any other being around you.  Old friend or brand new enemy, a character exists..  The same as when you meet or see someone for the first time.  Your mind or, as I said, Ego makes a judgment of who you think that person is... You already know if you are going to like or dislike this person.  You may learn to be wrong, but you make judgments.  Anyone that says they don't at all are either very enlightened or is an idiot...  Lots of people are idiots..