Characters Quotes · Page 18

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do

— Laurell K. Hamilton

What Paul and I do is not fashionable - it's a load of silly characters mucking about.

— Harry Enfield

I want to play challenging characters. You should never be satisfied.

— Bryan Greenberg

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.”

— Amit Kalantri

The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.

— Georges Danton

I love characters who can rile an audience so much - it means you've done your job well.

— Jodie Comer

I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.

— Cate Blanchett

Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?

— Siri Hustvedt

Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world…

— Jesmyn Ward

I try to choose characters that don't remind the audience of my previous roles. I make a conscious effort for that.

— Fahadh Faasil

All my characters have their own political thoughts of the world around. If it is not in the script, I put it…

— Abhishek Banerjee

When you are working on a movie, you have to ensure that the journey of characters ends in two hours.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters.

— Jessie Mueller

The movies and TV shows I like to watch tend to put their characters in situations where they have to dig deeper.

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.

— Noel Fisher

Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor.…

— Aaron Staton

Understand, my own politics aren't necessarily interchangeable with what any of my characters believe. You could take each of the characters in…

— James Vance

The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear…

— Tim O'Brien

My books often involve characters who began in some form of mental isolation, with a feeling of having died to the world.…

— Kem Nunn

I'm sure some of the characters in 'X-Men' had a lot of physically demanding stuff to do, but my character's pretty much…

— Aaron Stanford

I feel like the Eternals, each of them is a piece of the puzzle. They're part of the bigger picture. I think…

— Lauren Ridloff

There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable…

— Randeep Hooda

I think people are really starting to rebel against that. And I think there's going to be more and more gray areas.…

— Evan Rachel Wood

“Anything which you have in profusion is poison”

— Amit Kalantri

I wrote for 'The Sopranos' and worked on big, blustery characters for quite a while.

— Terence Winter

“To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.”

— Amit Kalantri

I gravitate towards silent characters who don't talk much.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

It's not like I go around trying to imprint all the characters I play with Q.

— John de Lancie

All the way through the book I altered details about every one of the characters.

— James Frey

I look for characters who are emotionally driven.

— Stacy Keach

I'm basically drawn to defeated, injured, hurt, barely walking characters.

— Steven Shainberg

For me it's a compliment, playing baddie characters. I take it as a compliment.

— Ben Mendelsohn

What can I say: I'm a writer - I enjoy forcing pain and suffering on my characters!

— Marie Lu

I tend to like writing characters that are not typical heroes.

— N. K. Jemisin

“Creating characters is easy. It’s getting them to behave that’s the problem.”

— Steven Ramirez

I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.

— Peter Sarsgaard

I don't agree with the idea that my characters are unlikeable.

— Noah Baumbach

I have a thing for working with wounded characters.

— Jane Jensen

I always find stuff in my characters to relate to.

— Gerard Butler