Characters Quotes · Page 13

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

— David E. Kelley

It's almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors.

— Doug Liman

As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.

— Aaron Paul

When I started my own podcast, I realized I definitely wanted to do characters.

— Paul F. Tompkins

“Words are better than weapons, wisdom is better than war.”

— Amit Kalantri

I enjoy playing characters who are struggling, particularly with themselves.

— Michael Imperioli

... it is always the men we won't allow to make love to us, who take our characters away.

— Ellen Buckingham Mathews

Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved…

— Thorne Smith

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I…

— Spike Jonze

“Whereas Mirabelle is tall, thin and sad, Vesta is physically and emotionally her opposite.”

— Sara Sheridan

You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.

— Candace Bushnell

“What happens in my next chapter depends on whether I wake up feeling creative or murderous.”

— Joyce Rachelle

You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story -…

— Jill McCorkle

I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way.

— Jodelle Ferland

I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.

— Irvine Welsh

With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters.…

— Sammi Hanratty

When I was growing up, we didn't have 'Will & Grace.' The one gay character was Monroe from 'Too Close For Comfort'…

— Guillermo Diaz

The funny thing is you oddly don't really say goodbye to all the characters you've played. There's like a chest of drawers…

— Johnny Depp

The secret at the heart of 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' is something everybody, except for some of the characters, knows in Chapter…

— Kim Edwards

Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to explore the pain of disenfranchisement, the social strata and…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I have learned never to judge any of the characters that I portay. Sometimes that is difficult to do because as a…

— Chloe Grace Moretz

An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court…

— Chuck Jones

In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting…

— Virginia Postrel

I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

— L. J. Smith

“Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.”

— Amit Kalantri

“In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.”

— Amit Kalantri

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

— Saoirse Ronan

I'm always being asked to play roles or characters that I don't really resemble.

— John Lithgow

I love finding ways to make familiar characters into someone unique.

— Annaleigh Ashford

There are fragments of me in all my characters.

— Takashi Miike

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

— Jared Harris

A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose

— Nusrat Sultana

“I can't have my perfect love story but my characters will have.”

— R.K. Valka

That's what I'm drawn to: playing characters that are completely different.

— Alex Sharp

Music is always a part of my characters' make-up.

— Michael K. Williams

I knew that I wanted to primarily play queer characters.

— Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital.

— Dino De Laurentiis

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

— Douglas Sirk

“Good writing is made up of characters who are bigger than their circumstances.”

— Michael Knight