1. What is your name?
2. How old are you?
3. What is your occupation?
4. Right now, more than anyt hing else in the world, what do you want?
5. What’s in your way?
6. What are some t hings you are doing to get what you want?
7. What is your economic background?
8. What is your family background?
9. What is your relationship to each member of your family?
10. What is your educational background? (be specific)
11. How is your love life? (if it applies)
12. What are your general polit ical views?
13. What is your religious background?
14. What is your ethnic background?
15. How is your healt h?
16. Do you have, or have you had, any addict ions?
17. Up to this moment, do you consider your life an overall success or failure?
18. Based on your past life, what are your present emotional needs?
19. What is the physical trait you most like about yourself?
20. What is the physical trait you least like about your self?
21. How independent do you consider yourself?
22. How dependent do you consider yourself?
23. What do you look like? How do you dress?
24. From what part of the country/world do you come? Cit y? Suburbs?
Country?
25. Do you have many close friends? Just a few?
26. Do you consider yourself witt y? Dull?
27. Do you consider yourself a “physical” person?
28. How did the era in which you grew up influence you?
29. Who was the greatest influence in your life? Why?
30. (This question is for you.) How am I, as an actor or actress like this
person? How am I unlike this person?
You now have thirty answers which will influence the way you approach the role. Some
may not appear important or necessary right away. Save them anyway. As time goes on,
you’ll discover every detail holds you in good stead.