Protagonists Quotes

You look like a protagonist.

— Rainbow Rowell

Protagonists traditionally are active characters.

— Lulu Wang

I do my job. The protagonists are the players.

— Javi Gracia

I think I like reluctant protagonists.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

You don't need to like your protagonists.

— Anson Mount

My protagonists, male and female, are me.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“something is what makes protagonists interesting.”

— Nathan Bransford

My music had two protagonists, me and the Greek people.

— Mikis Theodorakis

I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

— Alison Bechdel

Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.

— David Mamet

It is the objective of the protagonist that keeps us in our seats.

— David Mamet

“the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters”

— Tony Hoagland

With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist.

— Jordan Peele

The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.

— David Mamet

I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person.

— Emily Giffin

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

— Diablo Cody

I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that…

— Hugh Laurie

I like getting under the skin of the protagonists of every book I read, it makes the whole story so much more…

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

It was great to essentially have two protagonists where you're sympathies could go back and forth between the two of them, throughout…

— Tony Goldwyn

For the blockbusters, people were always telling me that if you write female protagonists, the boys won't go, so you have to…

— Linda Woolverton

Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard…

— Charles Stross

American and Vietnamese characters alike leap to life through the voice and eyes of a tenyearold girl-a protagonist so strong, loving, and…

— Mitali Perkins

Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that…

— Neve McIntosh

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It…

— Rachel Holmes

The Hulk is the most difficult Marvel property because it's always about balance. Is he a monster? Is he a hero? Are…

— Joss Whedon

I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One…

— William Gibson

In the modern era, it isn't enough to write, you must also be the Writer, with a capital 'W,' and play your…

— Tony Kushner

Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author…

— Alane Ferguson

One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I…

— Ian Fleming

'What It Is' was based on this class I've been teaching for 10 years - I wanted to write a book about…

— Lynda Barry

In my career, I've often played the protagonist or the hero of the movie, and there are so many rules inherent to…

— Ryan Phillippe

The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the…

— Maurice Jarre

Eva is a story of repetition. It is a story where our protagonist faces the same situation many times over and determinedly…

— Hideaki Anno

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If…

— Donald Miller

Lars is played by Ryan Gosling, the Prince of Tics, whose idea of acting is to wait a few beats before reacting…

— Joe Queenan

The Hawk and the Dove is a wonderful idea for a book, wonderfully carried out. Nicholas Thompson has used illuminating new material…

— James Fallows

There is a social contract in "Fight Club" and in "Choke" where the protagonist has deceived a whole bunch of people. In…

— Chuck Palahniuk

My writing derived from the conviction I conceived during my college years: one should lead one's life as if one were the…

— Jeffrey Tayler

Whether it's Mrs Dalloway's lost love or Thérèse Raquin's burgeoning horror, The Paying Guests reminds us of every great novel we've gasped…

— Charlotte Mendelson

This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would…

— Strom Thurmond