Characters Quotes · Page 53

I'm drawn towards people who have a little pathos and a little dark side, and I feel the same towards fictional characters.

— Lisa Hanawalt

“Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

My films are very rooted in specific people's point of view. Some film-makers give a more global point of view, like God…

— Doug Liman

If I just sit here, what am I going to do? I don't have a trade. I don't teach or anything. I…

— Elmore Leonard

I've always maintained that all characters and all personalities are in all of us. The whole thing is available. You're not this…

— Richard Gere

“If [the characters] grow a lot, they begin to influence the course of the story instead of the other way around.”

— Stephen King

The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because…

— Clive Owen

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

— Chadwick Boseman

Even while I'm really interested in playing female characters that are varied and interesting and dynamic, I'm not of the mind that…

— Tessa Thompson

When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary,…

— Roald Dahl

I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from…

— Carla Gugino

Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material,…

— Meg Cabot

For me, the acting part - and I have to say it makes me a little worried about my own psychological make-up…

— Kathy Baker

I was creator and executive producer of 'The Brady Bunch' on TV. The stage version was done by others, but it was…

— Sherwood Schwartz

After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000…

— Richard Flanagan

I like very dry humor. I don't like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are…

— Emily Rios

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life,…

— Laurie Graham

Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.

— Jodie Foster

I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party…

— Dana Carvey

I don't tend to cast roles in my head because I spend so much time with these characters and the drawings that…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to…

— Conor Oberst

Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be…

— Robert Rodriguez

The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses the line and the villain who sometimes…

— Geoff Johns

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their…

— Mary-Louise Parker

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

— Matthew Nable

Every person has contributed to me as a human, but a lot of the characters I do are ones I created.

— Tracy Morgan

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.

— Tony Curtis

I just write characters, and somehow they happen to be a boy and a girl. When the story is put together, and…

— Imtiaz Ali

“Characters, for good or evil, are part of an author's family. Once we have let them out of our imaginations, they stay…

— Andrew Ferrell

'Game of Thrones' is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense…

— Jim Rash

Many people are taking 2D games and making them into 3D games by recreating the characters in polygons. But the gameplay's still…

— Hideo Kojima

I think all of my male characters, I suppose, in all of my films, they're not necessarily the traditional version of masculinity.

— Andrew Haigh

With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people.

— David Walton

To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.

— Rafael Yglesias

When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a…

— Vera Farmiga

I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.

— Katee Sackhoff

Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image.

— Scott Westerfeld

I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and…

— Elizabeth George

As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually…

— Michael Sheen

I am one of these characters who seems to thrive off a little bit of niggle, a little bit of pressure.

— Stuart Broad