Characters Quotes · Page 50

I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play.

— Steve Buscemi

I like to explore characters who are very different to me, or varied parts are very similar to me.

— Gwendoline Christie

As long as it comes across, the characters are well-served, the stories are good, and people like it, that's it for me.…

— Jim Cummings

I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous,…

— Clive Owen

I like to put my characters through a lot, so, in 'Talon,' my fans will find familiar themes of bravery and sacrifice,…

— Julie Kagawa

Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life,…

— Kim Cattrall

I'm always playing these mendacious characters who end up hoisting themselves by their own petard.

— Maxwell Caulfield

I've been really lucky to play sort of a diverse array of characters over my relatively short career, although it feels really…

— Allison Scagliotti

Those are the kinds of roles you can really sink your teeth into. Characters with an edge. When you're playing someone who's…

— Matt Dillon

In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,'…

— Josh Trank

Very rarely am I attracted to characters that are 'woe is me.' I'm not a big fan of women that have to…

— Mila Kunis

My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book. They become so real to me,…

— Judy Blume

I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the…

— Doug Liman

How do you make sure that you stand your ground and you find your place in the world, even if that place…

— Misha Green

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are…

— Adam Johnson

When I go and speak now at all sorts of conferences, later in the night there's always a better Maxie Walker than…

— Max Walker

I never judge the characters I'm asked to play, and I don't need to feel that they are a part of me.

— Kim Bodnia

Shows like 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends,' they have, like, one or two damn characters throughout the whole series that are minorities.

— Esai Morales

I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those…

— Randy Quaid

Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against…

— Ridley Scott

I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters.

— Maria Doyle Kennedy

Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a…

— Peter Dinklage

The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form... is to know…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters.

— Miriam Toews

At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work.

— Hiro Murai

I can't bear shopping. I can choose clothes for my characters, but not for myself. I've got no dress sense. Or I've…

— Richard Armitage

There are fantastic stories yet to be told featuring Marvel's characters, old and new, and I'm thrilled to be part of them.

— Charles Soule

If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.

— Norman MacCaig

We're not the characters that we portray online, and even if we are, we're a 10-time version of ourselves. That's still not…

— Rhea Ripley

I feel that in horror movies, especially, if you don't care about the characters, you've lost the audience. No one cares, and…

— Drew Goddard

There's so many characters they [studios] are not letting me play. And I thought, "Why don't you just go produce it yourself?".

— George Hamilton

If you can't laugh at your own characters, or shed a tear for them, or even get angry at one of them,…

— Johanna Lindsey

I think the thing I took most from game playing was just getting in the characters head. I took it really seriously.…

— Drew Goddard

Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to…

— Douglas Coupland

I always respond to characters who have depth. I'm always interested in those people. They're the ones who surprise you.

— Miriam Shor

A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

— Jack Kirby

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the…

— Paul Auster

Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant…

— Khaled Hosseini

There are so few shows that are willing to take risks with their characters in the way that 'Homeland' does. And yet,…

— Raza Jaffrey

Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an…

— Sylvester Stallone