Characters Quotes · Page 40

I don't have a clear biography of my own that I could recount in an interesting way. I'm made up of the…

— Olga Tokarczuk

I like playing characters that fit my age and represent that time and the situations we face.

— Hyun Bin

“Characters are like kids. They want to be played with, taken on adventures. And they won't let you rest until you do.”

— Buffy Andrews

With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their…

— Patrick Wilson

Where are the good guys with disfigurements, where are the characters with disfigurements where it isn't even mentioned?

— Adam Pearson

Whenever I do a movie I always like to base my character off of a couple different characters.

— The Miz

I just have that cop gene going on. I like strong women. I think a lot of women relate to strong characters,…

— Ally Walker

A lot of readers want characters to behave in a responsible way, or they want to understand the characters' dilemma and act,…

— Susan Minot

Every so often you get to play wonderful characters maybe at the wrong time in your life. Sometimes, you get to play…

— Jude Law

If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I…

— William Gibson

'Into The Wild' had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved, and 'Unforgiven' is just a great western with…

— Brendan Fletcher

The biggest misconception is that I only write about shitty people. Or that I'm trying to be shocking. I just think people…

— Leslye Headland

I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot.…

— Vikas Swarup

Well, I never got into the young adult headspace. With 'Twilight,' they are pretty adult themes, aside from maybe the first one,…

— Melissa Rosenberg

“Are you going to be okay?' 'I thought I was. I'll get over it.' I'd heard too many characters say the same…

— André Aciman

Like, on the 'Parks And Rec' set, I still feel like I'm a guest star. Being a fan of the show, it's…

— Adam Scott

I think those are the kind of characters I like to play, people who are flawed and human because we all are.

— Simone Missick

I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.

— Kathryn Lasky

Psych yourself up until you're confident that the world will be interested in what happens to your characters. Confidence is key.

— Deborah Moggach

If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen…

— Morris Gleitzman

'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are…

— Carlton Cuse

The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars…

— Clint Eastwood

I'm looking for diversity, all my characters may or may not be on the wrong side of the tracks. It doesn't mean…

— Michael K. Williams

I love the wilder, more outlandish characters that are hard to make believable. Those are the ones I want to play.

— Allison Janney

In general, I'm always interested in characters who have kind of extreme aspects to them, who are in some ways larger than…

— Fred Melamed

We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

If you don't invest in the characters, you don't care if they get killed. It's more fun if you know them.

— Robert Englund

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

— Nic Pizzolatto

I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.

— Nicolas Cage

I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters.

— Sune Rose Wagner

“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Alphonse Karr

I didn't realise my upbringing was unusual until my teens. As the child of two actors, I presumed that visiting film sets…

— Emilia Fox

There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration... as if sanctification happens as…

— Tullian Tchividjian

Sometimes in Brazil, I work harder to make characters different and believable and to overcome the persona I have.

— Rodrigo Santoro

If you look at my body of work, there's always a dark side to my characters. They've always got a skeleton in…

— Tony Scott

Characters, like people, don't need to be right - only understood and, perhaps, accepted. We are all grey, lighter and darker, depending…

— Sobhita Dhulipala

Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.

— Patrick Rothfuss

One of my favourite actresses is Kate Winslet. She plays strong female characters and seems like she has a strong political awareness.…

— Emily Perkins

Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of…

— Maren Elwood