Characters Quotes · Page 39

For me, playing characters is always about an energy and feeling it in your body. That's when I know that the character…

— Sian Clifford

I'm a great planner, so before I ever write chapter 1, I work out what happens in every chapter and who the…

— Ken Follett

I say characters who are strong and wrong just have an assuredness about them that you can't even wrap your head around,…

— Ego Nwodim

All the characters I've ever played have really had nothing to do with looks. There's a lot of things that are a…

— Sarah Baker

And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very…

— Laura Innes

“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”

— Amit Kalantri

We see the worst versions of ourselves - things we did or could have done - in the characters who inspire us.

— Dave McCary

I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters…

— Jonathan Winters

I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get…

— Patricia MacLachlan

I definitely try to play a common man in my roles so people can identify with my characters, but the truth of…

— Zach Braff

I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever…

— Kate Atkinson

'Deity' will be a compelling and exciting thriller with complex and interesting characters. A neo-realistic style to story and images will take…

— Niels Arden Oplev

One of the things that's important for anybody adapting source material that is primarily a male buddy picture is to find ways…

— Bryan Fuller

'Boomerang!' I love that movie just because of Halle Berry, Robin Givens, Eddie Murphy, Grace Jones and Eartha Kitt. There were so…

— Drew Sidora

About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy,…

— Ken Watanabe

You need to be invested in what happens. The characters are your conduit to the story. Many modern horror films are fun…

— Jane Goldman

No matter what's happening in my life, I can always get lost in the romances of my characters.

— Amanda Seyfried

I like to play characters, man. I almost don't even think of them as good guys or bad guys. I know that's…

— Kevin Bacon

I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me.

— Miranda July

I always find something in all the characters I play. I fall in love with them a little bit.

— Sophie Okonedo

“Very few people are able to discount the effect of circumstances upon their own characters.”

— Bertrand Russell

Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast…

— Dan Gilroy

“Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.”

— Amit Kalantri

It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters,…

— Walter Hill

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read…

— Thomas Browne

I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.

— Richard LaGravenese

I really don't like to go for the stereotypes. I try to give you characters that you don't know until you get…

— Fede Alvarez

I become my characters, and then try to allow events in the story to take their own course. I try not to…

— Michael Morpurgo

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

— Joel Edgerton

I feel this way about a lot of movies, that the characters are idealized versions of people. For better or worse, I…

— Greg Mottola

There are stories to be told that are still untold and characters to be portrayed that haven't been portrayed correctly. So there's…

— Shonda Rhimes

Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have…

— Tamsin Egerton

“It’s just funny, isn’t it? How the main characters never know about the adventures they’re about to go on.”

— Brittainy C. Cherry

It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the…

— L.A. Weatherly

“Life is better than any movie or TV show. In real life there is no plot and there are billions of characters.”

— Marc Pamittan

One of my pet peeves about biblical epics was that the characters' costumes always looked like they're just out of the dry…

— Roma Downey

I've played so many different roles over more than 15 years, but I still hope to play more various characters.

— Hyun Bin

There are so many quirky characters, it's easy to fall in love with any number of the characters on 'The Carrie Diaries'.

— Brendan Dooling

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn't be acting.

— Anna Paquin

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

— Penelope Wilton