Characters Quotes · Page 36

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.

— Glenn Close

“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”

— Amit Kalantri

I like to make definite choices and give my characters as many unique edges as possible.

— Keegan Connor Tracy

I have tried to maintain the variety in the characters I choose to play.

— Neha Sharma

Some characters need to be more performance-orientated; some, you have to be still.

— Laurence Fishburne

“Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines.”

— Adam Phillips Going Sane

My women characters should not exist only to play the 'love interest' of a male character.

— Sriram Raghavan

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

— Robert Crais

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and…

— Maeve Binchy

I think my characters are more wish fulfillments than they are mirrors. They see things I don't and live in a world…

— Sarah Addison Allen

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

— Terry McMillan

“Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.”

— Teresa Mummert

“All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.”

— Alphonse Karr

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see…

— Gal Gadot

In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away…

— Nathan Fillion

I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.

— Laurie Metcalf

You know, I really enjoy longevity. I see actors in their forties and they just turn out these really fabulous roles and…

— Kelly Reilly

Somehow we allow, if a character goes to the dark side, if we're hooked into that character - I'm obsessed with Peaky…

— Lauren Shuler Donner

I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more…

— Joanna Trollope

With every episodic, there's a learning curve where writers try to find the voice of the characters by way of the actors.…

— Sasha Roiz

There are too many positive and goody male characters on TV, and they work, so its good for them. I feel each…

— Ashish Sharma

I have always loved contemporary dance, but it has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But choreography is very…

— Michael Leunig

'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in…

— Edmund White

I watched 'Iron Man 3' the other night, and my chin was on the floor. 'Vikingdom' is a different type of movie,…

— Craig Fairbrass

“The secret to having your characters stand out from all the rest is to put your heart and spirit into them. You”

— Rachel Ballon

In fact, I'm not the same person as the characters you see me portray - I don't know who in today's day…

— Prachi Desai

“Pilot scripts are particularly difficult to write because you have to introduce all the characters without it feeling like a series of…

— Tina Fey

When I was younger - I don't do this too much now - but sometimes if I couldn't sleep, I would lie…

— Jefferson Mays

“Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That's what most of my characters are…

— Elmore Leonard

If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and…

— Amy Bloom

I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind.

— Daniel Sharman

There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone…

— Stephen Graham

The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get…

— Taissa Farmiga

In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a…

— Michael Arndt

“...although stories are about characters, they're mostly about "character". There's a difference.”

— Morgan Parker

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them…

— Ruth Ozeki

I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me.

— Maria Bamford

I can't write my films in La-La Land. I don't know how to write for my characters like that.

— Kabir Khan

Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity…

— Tom Hollander

Your character is always right. No real person thinks they're being stupid or misguided or bigoted or evil or just plain wrong…

— Tana French