Characters Quotes · Page 54

I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.

— Catherine Mary Stewart

Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.

— Michael Zaslow

I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or…

— John Wells

Yes, I certainly look for strong characters - whether that means they're strong in their vulnerability or strong in the way they…

— Vicky McClure

“Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are real or just characters in one of my novels.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.

— Charles de Lint

I don't have any special approach for playing dark characters. That's because I never looked at them as dark characters per se.…

— Tabu

'Homeland' really is one of those shows where they start to write more or less depending on what's kind of going on…

— Raza Jaffrey

My stories are pretty simplistic, but the characters are always complex and always right, and that comes from the script and my…

— Tony Scott

I look at some of the old villains in the Disney movies. If you really listen, you can hear some of the…

— Jennifer Stone

Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional…

— Elliot Cowan

Even if you're the President of the United States, you still act like a little child and think like a little child…

— Stellan Skarsgard

I've always thought darker characters were more fun to play. They're probably not any more complex or interesting than their good, law-abiding…

— Aidan Gillen

I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner…

— Lynn Nottage

I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of…

— Mara Wilson

Georgina will be there at the end. Georgina should sleep with every one of the male characters on the show. I think…

— Michelle Trachtenberg

“Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.”

— Amit Kalantri

For me, the music is always speaking from the point of view of the characters. Rarely do you score an event.

— Michael Giacchino

I am a tremendous 'Star Wars' fan; I know the story means an enormous love to me. I love the characters.

— Richard Marquand

One of the things you have to be acutely aware of when shooting episodes out of order is your character's relationship with…

— Gina Bellman

I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer

— Alison Lohman

That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.

— Ben Barnes

“If they are good characters, they have minds of their owns. If they are great characters, they go stomping off into the…

— Wendi Kelly

I love the idea of writing these huge, bombastic characters; I'll stay in the superhero world as long as I can.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

I tell about some of the female characters from the Bible so girls can be inspired and empowered and uplifted.

— Roma Downey

Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint…

— Andie MacDowell

What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make…

— Nancy Kress

People know me through my characters. I don't think they have any idea about the individual that I am. They know I…

— Fahadh Faasil

I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show…

— Elizabeth Meriwether

I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of…

— Peter Dinklage

There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on…

— Garth Ennis

That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth.…

— R. A. Salvatore

I love some films with very silent characters, people who don't speak, but I wouldn't be able to do that.

— Arnaud Desplechin

Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of…

— Dwayne Johnson

Often when you're a teenage girl, you get sent characters that are so unenjoyable and unexciting.

— Kerris Dorsey

The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role…

— Paul Newman

I always play outsiders. I think I'm carrying a lot of those characters and I wonder if I play them because those…

— Zawe Ashton

My body has done for me all these years things I couldn't ever even dreamt to do for characters. It's a tool,…

— Melissa Leo

You establish a technique on how to develop characters. Everyone does it their own way, and that's what makes it fun.

— Frank Vincent