Characters Quotes · Page 59

I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.

— Irvine Welsh

I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever…

— Robin Wasserman

There are, of course, fat characters in books out there, some of them quite enduring and famous. But they tend to be…

— Michelle Dean

When I play characters, I like playing people who just comment on stuff, stand around and talk.

— Taika Waititi

I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'

— Lorrie Moore

The most natural thing for us is drawing. The characters [in Persepolis] are hand drawn. We're not technical people. We don't know…

— Marjane Satrapi

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is…

— Joel Coen

Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean…

— Park Bo-gum

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the…

— Angelina Jolie

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances…

— Erich Hoeber

Ultimately, all characters have some negative and positive energies. That's just how I see it. I didn't go out looking for negative…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

In theater, you go in-depth with your character, so coming to the States, it was inevitable to dig into the pilots I…

— Adan Canto

You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got…

— Harvey Korman

I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in 'Dumbo's Circus.' I'm used to getting…

— Jim Cummings

I feel like a lot of girl characters in anything usually end up being either extremely tough or extremely ditzy. There's always…

— Pendleton Ward

I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in…

— Kresley Cole

I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too,…

— Conor McPherson

I've had the opportunity to do a wide range of stuff, a lot of different characters and they've all had their own…

— Tony Hale

Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved…

— Thorne Smith

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I…

— Spike Jonze

“Whereas Mirabelle is tall, thin and sad, Vesta is physically and emotionally her opposite.”

— Sara Sheridan

You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.

— Candace Bushnell

You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story -…

— Jill McCorkle

“What happens in my next chapter depends on whether I wake up feeling creative or murderous.”

— Joyce Rachelle

We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together.

— Anonymous

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that…

— Ben Whishaw

There are a lot of actresses out there who are the girl next door. I relate more to characters who have an…

— Eliza Dushku

I can't be an arm candy to the hero. I need to play characters that have layers, that people can relate to.

— Shweta Tripathi

One year, my family and I dressed up in the theme of 'Wizard of Oz' for Halloween. We all went as the…

— Luke Benward

I try not to think too much about where my voice comes from. I'm channeling characters and emotion to come up with…

— Gin Wigmore

The characters don't get older. No one wants to see Stewie grow up because then he'd just get bigger and become a…

— Seth Macfarlane

Whoa, I've really got to stop making plans with fictional characters. It can't be healthy to develop relationships with people who don't…

— Chris Colfer

We made a commitment to making diverse stories with diverse characters brought to life by diverse artists.

— Travis Knight

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the…

— Jordana Brewster

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

— Eric Brown

I can find some part of me that relates to even the most evil characters. At least in my imagination.

— Richard Brake

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

— Julie Kagawa

The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has…

— Crystal Chappell

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've been really fortunate in the fact that I've gotten a chance to do a real wide range of all different kinds…

— Juliet Landau