“Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that people have begun to… — Carrie Preston Copy Share Image
I don't keep a record of the parts I've played, and I don't compare characters, but maybe I should? I could construct… — James Frain Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate to play many different types of characters thus far. However, I really enjoy playing roles that are different than… — Gina Holden Copy Share Image
I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female characters aren't. It's not that they're badly written, they're… — Ophelia Lovibond Copy Share Image
You know, I don't talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid about it and I… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
I find the best way to make things real is to just put two characters into a space and let them talk… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
For the past few years my fans have made it very clear that they would like to read my novels and revisit… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Finding the discipline, the motivation, the focus, the passion to sit down in front of a blank piece of paper or a… — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
To me sympathy for a character has little to do with how morally upstanding or wicked they are. All that really matters… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
Madea is such an inviting figure. That's why I'll never change her. She'll never be saved. She'll never be Christian. She is… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
This was more of a cartoonish thing for me and it kind of took me back to SCTV, in a way, where… — Eugene Levy Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
As a kid, I just loved cartoons. And as the credits went by, I'd study those names and then try to figure… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
I believe that every character I create is in their own film, that happens to overlap with the main film. There are… — Ana Lily Amirpour Copy Share Image
While the TV show 'Rizzoli & Isles' may have been inspired by my books, show runner Janet Tamaro has total control over… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
It's a challenge for me to make people like me. Maybe it's just my desperate need for people to like me, that… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
For any actor, when you're playing twin brothers, you have to be able to find the similarities between them as well as… — Efren Ramirez Copy Share Image
I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play 'Girl Talk' to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor… — Carrie Preston Copy Share Image
It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
I need to make the characters that I play in movies more accessible to audiences, more real. As an actor, you're always… — Shu Qi Copy Share Image
I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
I make no secret of the fact that writing She-Hulk can serve as an opportunity for me to sneak in some really… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
There are characters that have made me uncomfortable. I did a film called 'Rob Roy,' and I played Killearn, who was this… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
I hate shows, personally, where people stand around tossing stuff at each other, and any character can say any line, because you… — Bill Lawrence Copy Share Image
All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't… — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
I approach film no differently than I approach a role. I want to make sure the movie is right, the characters are… — Larenz Tate Copy Share Image
I have a lot of real life experience that I can draw on. And I think that shows in the characters that… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
'The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears' is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. that is why I am equally fond of them all and equally… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters… — Kajal Aggarwal Copy Share Image
![“When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I think that's how humans are ultimately defined. We are our relationships to one another. And a lot of what's interesting about us happens in the context of other people.” quote by John Green](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4d0/john-green-12_character_when-i-think-about-characters-i-like-to_1157553.jpg)
