Characters Quotes · Page 23

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

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

— Edward Norton

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

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

Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish…

— Jason Isaacs

I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability. I don't know why. I know I can play these roles,…

— Kari Matchett

I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

— Donnie Wahlberg

My characters are like my children in a way. I create them, and then I worry about them forevermore.

— Elizabeth Berg

“Very often the characters people respond best to have little parts of reality they can relate to.”

— Sara Sheridan

Who doesn't want to draw Batman or Superman? Everyone would like to be able to draw them. I've been really lucky when…

— Lee Bermejo

There's a little bit of me in all of the characters I've played. I've never really had the opportunity to play something…

— Katee Sackhoff

It's funny, people talk about the characters they play and who do you sort of see yourself as or which ones maybe…

— Gabriel Mann

I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series.…

— Jeff Abbott

The truth is these characters [of Batman story] evolve, and there's a lot of hands in the supporting of these characters. It's…

— Zack Snyder

What we try to do at Disney and through Disney character voices is really maintain the integrity of our classic characters at…

— Jodi Benson

In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in…

— Isabel Allende

The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a…

— Kurt Sutter

I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters…

— Kajal Aggarwal

I'm always interested in characters who are closed down, but who open up when they choose to, rather than when they're obliged…

— Steven Knight

Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what's going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas…

— Neal Shusterman

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

It gives you a high when you create characters and make them do what you want them to do.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

I tend toward characters who are more lost than found.

— Ron Eldard

I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.

— Michael Shannon

Characters are an extension of your imagination.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

What I would love is for a normalization of queer characters on TV.

— Stephanie Beatriz

I like my characters to go through some changes during a story arc.

— Jim Starlin

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

— Andrew Davies

The world cannot live on 140 characters alone.

— Matt Mullenweg

Yes, I love playing cartoony characters. Been known for that.

— Joan Collins

If I don't fall in love with my characters, I cannot shoot.

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Traditionally in zombie movies, one of the main characters dies.

— Ruben Fleischer

I'm attracted to polarizing characters who upend the civility of life.

— Mike White

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

— Antonio Banderas