Characters Quotes · Page 11

I am an actor and I like to play characters.

— Mohnish Bahl

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

— Henry David Thoreau

I never act my characters - I am them.

— Drew Barrymore

My characters always like themselves.

— Amy Sedaris

I really believe in the characters I play.

— Minnie Driver

Sometimes my characters are not myself.

— Umberto Eco

Few characters in history are indispensable.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

I love con-men characters in film.

— Simon Baker

I love and enjoy playing characters with a comic streak.

— Saswata Chatterjee

I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write.

— Kathryn Lasky

Clearly, I'm drawn to characters with inner conflicts.

— Jacqueline Carey

“The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.”

— Amit Kalantri

I feel very lucky to play these well-rounded characters.

— Geraldine Viswanathan

Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I'm interested in characters that are complex people.

— Jehane Noujaim

“...you mean you don't fit characters into a plot? excatly...”

— John Geddes A Familiar Rain

'Downton Abbey' is one of my favourite shows ever - it's just beautifully filmed, and the stories and characters are so wonderful.

— Amanda Donohoe

Befikre' is not just about two characters. There is another very prominent third character, and that is Paris.

— Vaani Kapoor

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.

— John Cazale

In Bengali films, I played my version of glamorous, where I played a wide-ranging characters.

— Riya Sen

What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on…

— Freddie Stroma

People relate to my characters and see me in a different way. They identify with me and remember the nuances of my…

— Kartik Aaryan

There were so few Asians on-screen when I grew up, and the ones who were on-screen weren't given complex characters to play.

— Constance Wu

Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing…

— Harlan Coben

I've always been incredibly crazy about the fact that I'd have any fans at all. It says to me that the characters…

— Elizabeth Mitchell

I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed…

— Elliot Perlman

One thing I think is really important is chemistry, and if actors have chemistry, audiences will pick up on that. Audiences will…

— Sarah Brown

“Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I am a cisgender woman who has always had a lot of female friends. While many of us have traits in common,…

— Seanan McGuire

When you do anything creative, you really have to live entirely in that world. I think my ability to do that is…

— Stephan Pastis

Characters begin as voices, then gain presence by being viewed in others' eyes. Characters define one another in dramatic contexts. It is…

— Joyce Carol Oates

We do various kinds of research during the planning stage. We consider the inclusion of characters that feature in games being developed…

— Masahiro Sakurai

I love playing characters that have secrets.

— Cynthia Watros

“All worries are less with wine.”

— Amit Kalantri

I'm the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.

— Donald Trump

I'm about my characters.

— Abel Ferrara

I don't want to think I'm making fun of anything ever, especially my characters.

— Riley Stearns

The period characters I have played have all been these wonderfully forward-thinking women.

— Phoebe Fox

I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.

— Idina Menzel

To tell you the truth, I don't ever talk about characters as separate from myself.

— Billy Bob Thornton