Characters Quotes · Page 19

All too often, female characters, in particular, aren't multi-layered enough.

— Ruth Bradley

If I'd lived like my characters, I would have been dead before I'd made 16 films.

— Pedro Almodovar

“We’re all background characters in someone else’s movie.”

— Marcus Sakey

“My characters are the family I would have if I could choose them myself.”

— Julie Thomas

I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.

— Clive Owen

Seeing people cosplaying my characters is always a blast.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

— Michael Tippett

There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.

— Dan Scanlon

While working in a group is great, on-set especially, it means you just don't get to see the characters one-on-one.

— Alycia Debnam-Carey

I actually see myself in all my characters. In order to imagine what it feels like to be another person I have…

— Elizabeth Strout

To this day, that's what I love the most: finding and playing characters who are out of my experience.

— David Morse

You kind of worry for the characters in a way that you don't normally in sci-fi, because sci-fi tends to be about…

— Mark Millar

I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but…

— Kathy Baker

Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood.

— Eric Braeden

I find it very funny as well as touching that people associate me with these characters I play and form a connect…

— Pankaj Tripathi

The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters.

— Terry Pratchett

My two best-known characters were both named Tony. For most people, I'm just Tony-period. They've never thought of me as some other…

— Tony Danza

It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript…

— Lady Gregory

I think it always makes for great television when two characters actually take time to realize that they want to be with…

— Candice Patton

Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to…

— Harlan Coben

My dad had such a cool job. When you're a voiceover actor, it's a whole different skill - you're bringing these huge,…

— Ashley Bell

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two…

— Idris Elba

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't…

— Lou Reed

The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“Fear of failure is fiction, face this fact and fear will fall.”

— Amit Kalantri

I do not imitate characters, I try to find their soul.

— Sunil Grover

There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.

— Adam McKay

My characters in each of my films bear no resemblance to each other.

— Vijay Antony

As an actor, you enjoy the characters that you play in a movie.

— Sana Khan

Anyone could identify with the human aspect of the characters.

— Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself.

— Juan Diego Solanas

My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.

— Quentin Tarantino

It's easier to play quirky characters and hide behind wardrobe and make-up, especially.

— William Sanderson

I'm grateful that some of my characters have stuck and impacted people to variant degrees.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

— Gene Simmons

In reading, you become these characters that are different from you.

— Torrey Peters

I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.

— Steve Buscemi

I've always been drawn to playing characters that are a completely the opposite of myself.

— Alexandra Breckenridge

So many women characters are extensions of male fantasy.

— Viola Davis

I always talk about my characters like they're real people.

— Dakota Fanning