Characters Quotes · Page 17

It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.

— John Fowles

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

— John Wayne

I'm very opinionated and passionate when it comes to my characters.

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

I tend to play characters that aren't supposed to black or written black.

— Megalyn Echikunwoke

As for dream roles, they usually just speak to you. I just crave complex characters.

— Kirsten Prout

“Prudence is precaution, prudence is protection.”

— Amit Kalantri

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

— Dorian Missick

“A book is simply a snap shot of the full story.”

— Erica Goros

One thing George R. R. Martin does is surprising things to main characters. But he says so himself.

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.

— Jim Rash

One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I just look for characters that have dimensions. If I don't see it written on the page, then I try to put…

— Boyd Holbrook

I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.

— Manuel Puig

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

— Kelli O'Hara

I love doing heightened reality stuff, and having fun with the characters I play, especially in a kind of darker way, which…

— Andrew-Lee Potts

Ugly Betty' has definitely helped me cope with issues I would have never been able to cope with if I wasn't a…

— Mark Indelicato

One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors,…

— Carla Gugino

When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should…

— Sherwood Schwartz

Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of…

— Amy Bloom

With a pilot, there's a lot of information that gets packed into 46 minutes or whatever it is. Usually what happens is…

— Eric Dane

It doesn't matter whether characters are real people or not; if they're not vivid on the page, then the reader doesn't care…

— Salman Rushdie

Some people tell me they would be afraid of my characters, but I tell those people [that] they meet these characters all…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

'The Walking Dead' never wants you to get too comfortable with characters and cast members. I think about the time you feel…

— Lew Temple

I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying to figure out who your…

— Eliza Dushku

Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.

— Dee Rees

I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.

— Harold Pinter

It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.

— Rene Auberjonois

Every actress hopes to play a wide range of characters because not often you dont.

— Megalyn Echikunwoke

We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.

— Sonia Braga

I love seeing a story evolve over several books and watching characters develop.

— Marie Rutkoski

All of Aaron Sorkin's characters are so smart.

— David Harbour

“Stop allowing MINOR characters to play a MAJOR role in your life”

— Renita Bryant

I think I gravitate towards characters who are slight outsiders.

— Zach Woods

I like to write about characters who are conflicted.

— Jed Mercurio

It's just wonderful to be able to write about what my characters are thinking.

— Ruth Jones

Why shouldn't there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?

— Florence Pugh

It is very difficult to popularise comic characters.

— Vivek

The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.

— Tim Roth

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.

— Hank Azaria

I'm obviously interested in playing characters who have autonomy, who drive the story.

— Kerry Bishe