Characters Quotes · Page 47

“All characters and events in this book are made up. If some of them seem familiar, it’s because so many of us…

— Stephen Minkin

“Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.”

— Amit Kalantri

In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.

— Kent Haruf

“I feel that the characters in my book, if they were real, would be like, "Seriously, another plot twist?”

— Kaya Carvajal

The characters I've played that people have noticed included a cross-dresser and a transsexual.

— Katherine Moennig

People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters…

— Kapil Sharma

I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.

— Junot Diaz

I like to have my characters talking in an up-to-date way, and I like their essentially modern self-awareness, which means we can…

— Jonathan Stroud

It's a tremendous challenge, because there have been so many characters created over the years. Every time you think you come up…

— Stan Lee

People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an…

— Gillian Flynn

'Avatar' was incredible and totally groundbreaking, but it wasn't about utter realism. It had a great mythic fantasy to it, but the…

— Matt Reeves

One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can…

— Graham Greene

I think sometimes with new characters, you can kind of hit a creative valley, and it's important to recognize when you're in…

— Jim Lee

It's been a lot of fun from script to script to get inside the mythology of 'Grimm.' We've been given a lot…

— Sasha Roiz

I often hear actors say during their interviews: 'I want to play a crazy person, a murderer, or someone who's on edge.'…

— Li Bingbing

I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out…

— Oscar Isaac

There are so many romantic comedies made, but very few dramas or love stories. And with a love story, you have to…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.

— Jim Rash

One thing George R. R. Martin does is surprising things to main characters. But he says so himself.

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself…

— Rani Mukerji

The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable…

— Sufjan Stevens

Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my…

— Kelli O'Hara

I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.

— Manuel Puig

I just look for characters that have dimensions. If I don't see it written on the page, then I try to put…

— Boyd Holbrook

The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters.

— Jessie Mueller

When you are working on a movie, you have to ensure that the journey of characters ends in two hours.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world…

— Jesmyn Ward

All my characters have their own political thoughts of the world around. If it is not in the script, I put it…

— Abhishek Banerjee

I try to choose characters that don't remind the audience of my previous roles. I make a conscious effort for that.

— Fahadh Faasil

Ugly Betty' has definitely helped me cope with issues I would have never been able to cope with if I wasn't a…

— Mark Indelicato

I love doing heightened reality stuff, and having fun with the characters I play, especially in a kind of darker way, which…

— Andrew-Lee Potts

Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?

— Siri Hustvedt

The movies and TV shows I like to watch tend to put their characters in situations where they have to dig deeper.

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

While working in a group is great, on-set especially, it means you just don't get to see the characters one-on-one.

— Alycia Debnam-Carey

Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.

— Noel Fisher

You kind of worry for the characters in a way that you don't normally in sci-fi, because sci-fi tends to be about…

— Mark Millar

I actually see myself in all my characters. In order to imagine what it feels like to be another person I have…

— Elizabeth Strout

To this day, that's what I love the most: finding and playing characters who are out of my experience.

— David Morse

I believe people leave a theater bonding with characters. Story is the vessel that carries character. Comedy is a very important component…

— Chris Meledandri