Characters Quotes · Page 43

I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters…

— Viola Davis

I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it…

— Jaime Ray Newman

It's funny, I used to say on 'That 70's Show', you could really put us in any decade, and it was about…

— Laura Prepon

“...when you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But…

— Scott McCloud

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the…

— Abigail Adams

“Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will…

— Michael J. Kannengieser

It's a problem with a lot of female characters, that a lot of them are guy oriented or what they're expressing or…

— Jenna Ortega

It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.

— Alexia Fast

In the pre-production process, I am emailing with the actors or jumping on the phone, and we're sort of figuring out who…

— Joe Swanberg

I think my mother characters have changed a lot since Sasha was born, just because I understand what a hard job it…

— Sarah Dessen

Sometimes the characters that I'm most resistant to are the ones that I find the most satisfying to play, because you have…

— Aya Cash

The bedrock of 'Being Human' has to be characters. I would hope that even if suddenly we had a huge budget per…

— Donald Sumpter

A lot of people have asked me about some of the characters that appear in 'Clockwork Prince,' like Aloysius Starkweather and Woolsey…

— Cassandra Clare

When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I…

— Jhonen Vasquez

Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like…

— Shawn Ashmore

When you do something unusual, the audience doesn't 100 percent know what you're up to in the beginning. And if you're doing…

— Greg Daniels

Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform…

— Melissa Ordway

I do that with all of my characters. They have one of the flaws I have, and I zero in on that…

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

I love all of Kate Winslet's characters. And Natalie Portman. If I can have a smidgen of what they've done, that would…

— Florence Pugh

I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the…

— Elizabeth Berg

I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of…

— Katey Sagal

I always find that really interesting, you know, when I get to see characters that I love in TV and film and…

— Jesse Williams

You always miss them [characters you've played] once you've walked away, but part of them always stays with you too.

— Johnny Depp

I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the…

— Faran Tahir

Drama comes from characters changing. If characters stay the same and nothing changes, there's really nothing to look at.

— Cory Barlog

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most…

— Jim Henson

If I ever got to do television, I would be interested in doing different kinds of characters and stories, and television doesn't…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

The beauty of the characters on 'Justified' is that all the human beings that are written are all flawed. Even with the…

— Mykelti Williamson

When I'm working on my characters, that's something I pay a lot of attention to: how their body works, how they move,…

— Astrid Berges-Frisbey

Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them.

— Janet Evanovich

One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.

— Andre Maurois

If my characters travel somewhere, I generally write about a place I know to give the scenes more authenticity.

— Sara Shepard

I don't think anyone's interested particularly in watching stuff that's just about two-dimensional characters anymore.

— Lesley Sharp

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

— John Patrick Shanley

Be it in Malayalam or Tamil, I got to play characters who had plenty to do in the storyline and not just…

— Amala Paul

“Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

To me, beauty is a commodity and that's the way it's treated in my books. It has power, and though that power…

— Leigh Bardugo

My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I…

— Hugh Dancy

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

— Matthew Nable