Characters Quotes · Page 27

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

— Mike White

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

— Bernardo Bertolucci

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

— Joan Collins

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

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

— John Gardner

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

— Holliday Grainger

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

— Orhan Pamuk

In the prequel we're going to tell about the characters before Left Behind, and the book would end with the rapture instead…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between…

— Yael Stone

Without having an emotional connection or some relatability to the characters, there's really nothing to root for, in some respect.

— David Nutter

When you have a set of characters, you have to fall in love with them and care about them as each individual…

— Tina Fey

I like coming up with new characters. Whether it's revamping an old character no one likes or just coming up with brand-new…

— Joe Madureira

I don't find the characters I've played funny. The characters are actually taking their situations very seriously.

— Paul Rudd

With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well.…

— Dwayne Johnson

I always think that the most interesting characters are those that are trying to cover something or those that have some sense…

— Emily Blunt

One of the greatest tools you have as a songwriter is anonymity. If someone knows too much about the songwriter, they don't…

— Shane McAnally

The characters that aren't what they seem to be or women who are stronger than people give them credit for or characters…

— Valorie Curry

I have minor characters who are Asian-American, and I've been using them throughout my career, but they've never taken center stage, they've…

— Tess Gerritsen

Doing voiceovers is so great because even though many people would think it's just your voice, you really do use all your…

— Ashley Bell

It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the…

— Aidan Gillen

I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult…

— Paul Bloom

The decision to work with Marvel for a while isn't any sort of denigration of DC. I had a fantastic time there,…

— Charles Soule

All my work is partly biographical. I mean, 'Crash' was absolutely that, absolutely. But you just wouldn't recognize me in most of…

— Paul Haggis

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

— Marti Noxon

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

— David Fincher

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

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

— Terry Goodkind

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

— Antonio Banderas

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

— Zuleikha Robinson

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

— Tony Scott

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

— Anonymous

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

— Joan Greenwood

Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.

— Mani Ratnam

You have to play your characters, not like them.

— John Malkovich

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

— Joanna Garcia

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

— Rupert Grint