I love and enjoy playing characters with a comic streak.

I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There's…

— Raymond E. Feist

I enjoy playing characters who are struggling, particularly with themselves.

— Michael Imperioli

I enjoy playing a quintessential antihero. There's something therapeutic about playing such characters. I know it sounds corny but I feel like I learn…

— Vin Diesel

I enjoy playing characters where I get to sort of change my look, my voice. It's not about what she wears, it's about what…

— Linda Cardellini

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

— Gary Oldman

Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect.

— Grant Morrison

As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.

— Kadir Nelson

As a writer - and a romance novelist, no less - I've always found it a bit odd when characters in comic books remain…

— Marjorie Liu

For characters where, in a comic, I'd avoid using screen tone because it's such a bother, I'd deliberately use it in animation in order…

— Akira Toriyama

I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.

— Sarah Shahi

Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice…

— Kelli O'Hara

In my own life, I think I've always been a bit of a people pleaser. Maybe the world around me was a little chaotic,…

— Heidi Gardner

I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.

— Jessica Lange

Every winning streak will have to end sometime.

— Anonymous

I was only a village doctor with a rebellious streak.

— Tan Cheng Bock