Characters Quotes · Page 32

The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.

— Tim Roth

Why shouldn't there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?

— Florence Pugh

It is very difficult to popularise comic characters.

— Vivek

What Paul and I do is not fashionable - it's a load of silly characters mucking about.

— Harry Enfield

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I'm obviously interested in playing characters who have autonomy, who drive the story.

— Kerry Bishe

I love characters who can rile an audience so much - it means you've done your job well.

— Jodie Comer

The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.

— Georges Danton

I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.

— Kevin Spacey

I believe in books. I believe more in 'cross-media' - how characters are adapting across mediums.

— Bing Gordon

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.

— Peter Orner

I admired shows like 'Six Feet Under.' That was an amazing show. Never boring, always inventive, smart. Loved the characters. Completely original.…

— Chris Carter

The characters I usually get offered are described as 'none too bright' or 'funny but a little air-brained.'

— Didi Conn

My feeling with my characters is that they all have a right to feel exactly the way that they do, so I…

— Scott Thompson

The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had…

— Dan Castellaneta

O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.

— Gabriel Byrne

If you're going to do a show about somebody who dumped you, it's much richer if you have three characters dealing with…

— Robert Lepage

I think that I've always been attracted to characters who are positive and come from a very innocent place. I think there's…

— Amy Adams

I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories.…

— R. Kelly

I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You…

— Forest Whitaker

Meeting everyone you wanted to know in the small surf industry, I saw how the surf trade was made up of characters…

— John Van Hamersveld

I play characters. I don't think I really have a persona per se. I don't play the same guy every time. I…

— Laurence Fishburne

We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but…

— Ronald Frame

A lot of my characters are born out of a small grain in a person that I heighten and take to that…

— Lauren Lapkus

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I want to play challenging characters. You should never be satisfied.

— Bryan Greenberg

“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Anything which you have in profusion is poison”

— Amit Kalantri

I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.

— Cate Blanchett

It's not like I go around trying to imprint all the characters I play with Q.

— John de Lancie

I gravitate towards silent characters who don't talk much.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

All the way through the book I altered details about every one of the characters.

— James Frey

I wrote for 'The Sopranos' and worked on big, blustery characters for quite a while.

— Terence Winter

“To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.”

— Amit Kalantri

I'm basically drawn to defeated, injured, hurt, barely walking characters.

— Steven Shainberg

I look for characters who are emotionally driven.

— Stacy Keach

I tend to like writing characters that are not typical heroes.

— N. K. Jemisin

I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.

— Peter Sarsgaard

“Creating characters is easy. It’s getting them to behave that’s the problem.”

— Steven Ramirez

What can I say: I'm a writer - I enjoy forcing pain and suffering on my characters!

— Marie Lu