I like characters that make choices and try to drive their…

I like characters that make me feel challenged and sort of inspired.

— Paul Dano

“Life is just a series of choices. We try to always make the best ones, but really we’re just settling for the lesser of…

— S.L. Jennings

Music is always a part of my characters' make-up.

— Michael K. Williams

I like to find characters. Here's the bottom line: I can't play someone if I can't figure out what he cares about. Everybody cares…

— William Fichtner

I like characters with problems. I like to understand them... To play alcoholics, fetishists, strange girls, you have to dig deep within yourself. It's…

— Marie Trintignant

I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability.

— Stephan Pastis

I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directors,…

— Marc Jacobs

Well, I like characters, players with personality, I don't like flat people.

— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

“The characters who go to make up my stories and novels are not portraits. Characters I invent along with the story that carries them.…

— Eudora Welty

Multiple characters make it more difficult to showcase each character.

— David Finch

Disney has a bible for their characters, so that people who draw Disney characters have to make them look correct.

— Trina Robbins

I like to go to the movies and watch characters who make me question how I see the world.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

So much emotion can be brought in an animated film that's very hard to get in a live-action film. I haven't quite put my…

— Steve Martin

“I am often drawn to unlikable characters, to those who behave in socially unacceptable ways, say whatever is on their mind, and do what…

— Roxane Gay

I love to write, to create my own characters and make them do whatever I want.

— Julia Fox