Characters Quotes

The maxims of men reveal their characters.

— Luc de Clapiers

I love playing intense characters.

— Barun Sobti

I can usually play polarizing characters.

— James Ransone

I want to play many different characters.

— Demi Moore

“Simplicity saves strength.”

— Amit Kalantri

I don't prepare for my characters.

— Mohanlal

I just look for characters I can relate to.

— Katie Holmes

I love playing complex characters.

— Daniela Ruah

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.

— Robert Holdstock

You can never know enough about your characters

— W. Somerset Maugham

Variety of characters and themes bring out the best in me.

— Priyamani

I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.

— Robert Englund

I can't really compare them, all my characters are very close to my heart.

— Manoj Kumar

I'm stunned that people keep asking me to play characters I didn't expect to play.

— Mark Williams

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

— Norman Rush

“The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.”

— Amit Kalantri

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

— Nicholas Sparks

All films are a challenge and they are a harder challenge when dealing with characters of color.

— Rick Famuyiwa

Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch…

— D. J. Cotrona

For me, a story has to have characters, and my role should be meaningful. At the end of the day, people should…

— Nithya Menen

First, I would find an object which I would think is suitable for my characters and stories, then write about it, and…

— Orhan Pamuk

Everyone has a story, but no one would make it to the happy ending if they didnt have the help of the…

— Levita Charin

There are a million little things, but one of the best ways to get to know characters is to just put them…

— Greta Gerwig

“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones…

— Amit Kalantri

The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years…

— Victoria Hanley

There's something extremely rewarding about following characters that you like and knowing that there's as many hours of viewing as you have…

— Jamie Bamber

I'm more influenced by characters than standups. I love strong, comic women because it's so hard, and I have so much respect…

— Amy Hoggart

I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy or as obvious a relationship to power in…

— Todd Haynes

When you're really young, you tend to fall in love with characters. If you start seeing the same type of character everywhere…

— Kelly Marie Tran

“The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses. Icy silence in the coach. Marius, motionless, his body…

— Victor Hugo

I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When…

— Sigourney Weaver

“As an artist she finds Dick's work hopelessly naive, yet she is a lover of certain kinds of bad art, art which…

— Chris Kraus

I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I…

— Wendy Wasserstein

What intrigues me is that people kind of naturally want to label or pigeonhole the characters. They want to make it easy…

— Alexander Skarsgard

For me, the best characters are the ones that feel fully formed inside and out, so I try to have a very…

— Nick Kroll

“Hard and cruel though it may seem," said the Cardinal, "yet we, who hold our high office as keepers and watchmen to…

— Karen Blixen

“When writing, there are some scenes that are emotionally overwhelming. They completely overcome the author, and only when they do this can…

— Dean F. Wilson

“We have all been fooled into believing in people who are entirely imaginary--made-up prisoners in a hypothetical panopticon. But the point isn't…

— Robyn Schneider

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

— Eudora Welty