Characters Quotes · Page 21

“Characters are limbs that writers use to kill with.”

— Joseph Eastwood

We really lived, ate, drank and slept Batman - ideas, characters and stories.

— Jerry Robinson

Anything you want to know, you ask the characters.

— August Wilson

Every place is determined by the characters who are there.

— Robert Plant

I think the most interesting characters are those in which you can see both sides.

— Sebastian Koch

“Never let your character say "how could it get any worse"…it always does.”

— Kimi Alexandre

Fans want to see a story with characters, and they want to see a story.

— Martin Freeman

I like three-dimensional characters - it's just more interesting when you get on set.

— Daniel Kaluuya

The art of transformation is a very important thing to me, and I always believe I can say something more truthful through…

— Andy Serkis

“I act out characters who aren’t like me and often spend time with people I don’t care to see”

— Ruby Rowe

I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was... my favorite book as a little girl, and the Silvan Elves were my…

— Evangeline Lilly

We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up…

— Geena Davis

I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering…

— Albert Finney

I do characters. I believe in that. I think people are interesting. Now, everybody that you meet in New York City thinks…

— Jerry Weintraub

It's always exciting to play characters who are obsessive because all their energy is so focused on that one thing and they're…

— Robin McLeavy

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

— Kimberly Willis Holt

When you have a script, and you're discussing what it can be, and who going to play what role, that's a kind…

— Cary Fukunaga

The fact is, it was a big show. We were a part of that show. Everybody watches for different reasons. There were…

— Matthew Ashford

I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we…

— Dan Scanlon

Every actor, I don't care what they say, their roles are a lot more interesting than we are, and at the end…

— Moon Bloodgood

I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and see two guys talking…

— J. B. Smoove

As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and…

— Mike Colter

I mean, I don't relate to characters who are perfect. If someone offers up somebody as a role model, I'm going to…

— Torrey Peters

I have played several characters that are crabby and cranky. I don't know if I'm just not a very well-developed human being…

— Judy Greer

I like fractured characters with human follies.

— Rajiv Menon

I guess I find it easy to play uptight characters.

— Miranda Otto

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

— Nic Pizzolatto

I'm not very good at depicting the characters' psychology on the page.

— Akira Toriyama

“If she says goodbye, someone else will say hi.”

— Amit Kalantri

Six years is a long time to play the same characters on the same show.

— Chris Wood

I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

— Trenton Lee Stewart

Your characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter.

— Tina Fey

Now, it's weird not to have gay characters on a show.

— Megan Mullally

When I write, I try to become different characters.

— Billie Eilish

I'm open to different kinds of roles, characters and genres.

— Diana Penty

I do just love the characters in sci-fi, but not necessarily the fact that it's sci-fi.

— Laura Vandervoort

“Music is the fastest motivator in the world.”

— Amit Kalantri

Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters.

— Will Arnett

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

— Clint Eastwood

You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.

— Sophie Marceau