Characters Quotes · Page 44

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain…

— Angelina Jolie

The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over…

— Sally Field

I like down-to-Earth characters, but I also like being able to get outside my box of knowledge.

— Britt Robertson

I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that…

— Quentin Tarantino

I've always wanted to explore characters of all races, all genders, all ages. It just seems to me to be a natural…

— Alan Moore

'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more…

— Bailey Chase

What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so…

— Richard Russo

[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I've played. He's lost the power to love, which doesn't make him a…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies,…

— Salman Khan

Il ne faut point donner d'esprit a' ses personnages; mais savoir les placer dans des circonstances qui leur en donnent. You should…

— Denis Diderot

With each film, I get more and more involved and it's more and more time-consuming. Also, I like to break myths and…

— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Bunsen' is one of the best things I've been able to do. I'm so excited about it. Not only because of the…

— Butch Hartman

I've never been an impressionist. I was doing Sofia Vergara and Elizabeth Dole. I'm sometimes so low-confidence and self-aware, so characters that…

— Cecily Strong

The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Little Nell in the 1840s, people…

— Paul Bloom

I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years,…

— Martin Scorsese

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here…

— Adam Johnson

I love great writing. I like interesting characters. I like to work with people who push me to be better, to elevate…

— Julie Ann Emery

I guess, what I'm saying is that when I've been this surprised by my own characters and world, all bets are off.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Usually, when you do video games, you don't interact with the other actors. You each record your audio on different days, and…

— Eliza Dushku

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

— Alphonse Karr

I'm really proud of the characters I've been able to play. Certainly, playing the character on 'CSI' as Dr. Sherman Hawkes is…

— Hill Harper

Sometimes female characters start out as the wife or girlfriend, but then I realize, 'No, she's the book,' and she becomes a…

— Elmore Leonard

It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope -…

— Cecelia Ahern

There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the…

— Jeremy Northam

I couldn't give 'Vikings' away - I mean, I love these people. And I'm not sure anyone else writing it would necessarily…

— Michael Hirst

As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the…

— Jonathan Keltz

I always think about Faulkner, and I would argue that there can be a difference between the way that characters express themselves…

— Jesmyn Ward

There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.

— Joel Edgerton

I don't really have choices in the material I get. So I have to make the choices in the way I play…

— Jamie Dornan

Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have…

— Charles Baxter

My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative…

— Jane Smiley

I would love to do a comedy. The primary thing is complexity. The reason I play so many dark characters is because…

— Billy Zane

I think everybody goes through changes, and the same should be said for fictional characters, especially ones that you follow on television.

— Peter Dinklage

These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.

— John Sandford

That's the way it happens - some characters you set out to use, some are happy accidents. As long as it works,…

— Kurt Busiek

He exists in the public mind as bits and pieces of his characters-Butch Cassidy's charm, Ben Quick's machismo, Cool Hand Luke's defiance,…

— Maureen Dowd

Who said that being Latino is to be a stereotype? Characters are stereotypes when making plans or without shades. I do not…

— Edgar Ramirez

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions…

— John Cusack

I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I…

— Art Alexakis

Everybody has their own agenda, and that makes 'Power' a dark world. There aren't any really clean characters.

— Lela Loren