Characters Quotes · Page 19

“Let your characters lead when you're dancing together.”

— Caron Kamps Widden

I like to play characters who are flawed - the big man brought down.

— Lenny Henry

I love characters who are really dedicated to a really bad plan.

— Marti Noxon

I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

— Zoe Lister-Jones

I enjoy bringing humanity to complex characters.

— Isaiah Washington

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

— Orhan Pamuk

I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.

— David Fincher

I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

— Edward Norton

I have no complaints from my characters, be it in 'Commando' or 'Gangs of Wasseypur' everyone on those films was grey.

— Jaideep Ahlawat

To some degree, Hollywood doesn't know what to do with me because the characters I do are so different. But hopefully, that…

— Sharlto Copley

I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make everything - to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just…

— Timur Bekmambetov

I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all…

— Morgan Freeman

The scene is never really about moving the story forward on 'Breaking Bad.' That's the functional veneer of the scene, but it's…

— George Mastras

It's difficult because usually when they cast things, the main characters are Caucasian in absolutely almost every situation.

— Sandrine Holt

I always begin with a character or characters, and then try to think up as much action for them as possible.

— John Irving

There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to change. It's not a static story.…

— Carlton Cuse

There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

'Community' is a comedy show, and one of the characters happens to be a Christian. I do think they have been very…

— Yvette Nicole Brown

It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It…

— Tom Hardy

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at…

— John Banville

My experience is at The Groundlings Theater, where we created different characters and did sketch comedy. And sometimes the characters were outrageous,…

— Cheryl Hines

If you keep the situations real, the characters' behavior will be real and honest, too. If they're suddenly robbing a bank and…

— Nicole Holofcener

Duryodhan was a prince fighting for his throne. He was powered by ambition and aspiration. Parshuram is godly. His fight is against…

— Puneet Issar

The way I saw the characters these things just happened naturally. At the same time - and I know it's probably not…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

— Jeffrey Combs

Like anything, you've gotta find the humanity in the characters.

— Holliday Grainger

“[the writer] must copy, with his finite mind, the process of the infinite 'I AM.”

— John Gardner

What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.

— Tony Scott

Now I am an old hag, I get to play much more interesting characters.

— Joan Greenwood

“I love fictional characters...they can't break your heart.”

— Anonymous

Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.

— Terry Goodkind

It always comes down to script and characters.

— Tom Bateman

I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.

— Dana Ashbrook

I do like to play the darker characters; I don't really know why.

— Zuleikha Robinson

I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.

— Antonio Banderas

I'm much nicer then all my characters, let's just put it that way.

— Constance Zimmer

The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well.

— Rupert Grint

I believe what makes great television is wanting to watch particular characters.

— Joanna Garcia

You have to play your characters, not like them.

— John Malkovich

Certain characters are sticky, especially if they help you grow up as a person, I think.

— Matt Bomer