I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill. — Charlotte Riley Copy Share Image
I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey… — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A lot of banging in the head has built up over the decades, and for my own sanity, I needed to write.… — Martin Donovan Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll go on a Twitter spree and reply as much as I can. Talking to my fans is so much fun… — Jordin Sparks Copy Share Image
The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book… — Candace Camp Copy Share Image
I like characters with problems. I like to understand them... To play alcoholics, fetishists, strange girls, you have to dig deep within… — Marie Trintignant Copy Share Image
In my head, at least, the business of spinning stories has no closing time. Twists in my characters' lives, glimpses of their… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
The key for me with historical characters is they're interesting because they're human beings. A little bit of Hemingway goes a long… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
I'm not just saying this because I'm in the movie, but I really would recommend 'Secretariat.' It's fun, inspiring, and it's a… — Kevin Connolly Copy Share Image
The beauty of 'NCIS' is that all the characters are a little different. — Sean Murray Copy Share Image
I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it… — Harland Williams Copy Share Image
The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was... my favorite book as a little girl, and the Silvan Elves were my… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
“...when you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate to play many different types of characters thus far. However, I really enjoy playing roles that are different than… — Gina Holden Copy Share Image
