Characters Quotes · Page 33

For me it's a compliment, playing baddie characters. I take it as a compliment.

— Ben Mendelsohn

I don't agree with the idea that my characters are unlikeable.

— Noah Baumbach

I have a thing for working with wounded characters.

— Jane Jensen

If I'd lived like my characters, I would have been dead before I'd made 16 films.

— Pedro Almodovar

All too often, female characters, in particular, aren't multi-layered enough.

— Ruth Bradley

I always find stuff in my characters to relate to.

— Gerard Butler

“My characters are the family I would have if I could choose them myself.”

— Julie Thomas

“We’re all background characters in someone else’s movie.”

— Marcus Sakey

Macklin, being Macklin, just took on a life of his own. I almost never use real people as models for my characters.

— James Patterson

“Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.”

— Amit Kalantri

There's no game plan when it comes to thinking up new characters; inspiration can come from anything - from a wig I've…

— Catherine Tate

I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

— David Bowie

I'm not saying I talk to cartoon characters all the time, but the characters are very real to me. In a very…

— Paul Dini

When we have trans actors play trans characters, people can look onscreen and say, 'OK, this is what trans is.'

— Nicole Maines

I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or…

— Christopher Koch

I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen…

— Alaina Huffman

I do have a huge fascination for science, and I love to hear what my dad has to say. He used to…

— Daniela Ruah

I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing 'Cum Laude.' So many of the…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

There are plenty of secondary characters that I had always hoped to write, but I don't know if it will ever happen.…

— Lori Foster

Frank Sobotka in 'The Wire' on HBO was one of the greatest characters I've ever played. They cut his throat at the…

— Chris Bauer

In the early '90s, I wrote a play called 'Word of Mouth' in which I played a number of different characters. One…

— James Lecesne

Unlike other enduring characters such as 'Sherlock Holmes' or 'Tarzan,' being the 'Doctor' allows you a certain freedom that is both very…

— David Tennant

My favorite characters are people who think they're normal but they're not. I live in Baltimore, and it's full of people like…

— John Waters

Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how…

— Michael Chabon

I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.

— Clive Owen

Seeing people cosplaying my characters is always a blast.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.

— Dan Scanlon

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

— Michael Tippett

I do not imitate characters, I try to find their soul.

— Sunil Grover

“Fear of failure is fiction, face this fact and fear will fall.”

— Amit Kalantri

My characters in each of my films bear no resemblance to each other.

— Vijay Antony

There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.

— Adam McKay

If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself.

— Juan Diego Solanas

Anyone could identify with the human aspect of the characters.

— Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

As an actor, you enjoy the characters that you play in a movie.

— Sana Khan

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

— Gene Simmons

In reading, you become these characters that are different from you.

— Torrey Peters

It's easier to play quirky characters and hide behind wardrobe and make-up, especially.

— William Sanderson

My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.

— Quentin Tarantino

I'm grateful that some of my characters have stuck and impacted people to variant degrees.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph