Characters Quotes · Page 21

I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.

— Lian Hearn

A lot of characters I've played have a certain amount of strength, pride, and leadership.

— Mekhi Phifer

I don't want to be known for anything other than the fact that I play characters in movies.

— Sophia Myles

I love the female characters in 'She-Ra.' There isn't another show quite like it.

— Noelle Stevenson

The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.

— Claire Tomalin

Every actress hopes to play a wide range of characters because not often you don't.

— Megalyn Echikunwoke

I love telling the stories that we tell. I love playing the characters that we play.

— Seth Rollins

I'm affected by the characters I play, and sometimes they're hard to live with.

— Marion Cotillard

I suppose I'm what you'd called a character actress, so, often, my characters are quite extreme.

— Rachael Stirling

“In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.”

— Amit Kalantri

I think a lot, so I don't spend a lot of time actually writing - I do that part very quickly. That…

— Ru Freeman

Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little…

— Elizabeth Meriwether

The 'Fargo' characters, they're the characters of my people. They're stoic, hardworking, uncomplaining, and I loved them.

— Carrie Coon

“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.”

— Amit Kalantri

Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have…

— Ed Helms

One of the things that I've been trying to do with my characters, one of the things that does lead to me…

— Stephen Moyer

One of the greatest things about 'Continuum' is how great the writing is; our writing room is one of the most talented…

— Richard Harmon

I think about the characters I've created, and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's…

— Tom Clancy

The most real characters in a great play are those who are so meticulously drawn that the audience could predict how many…

— Kevin Hassett

The thing that attracted me to acting the most was I always felt quite unsure or insecure as a kid, and for…

— Christie Laing

The original and very basic 'Law & Order' series has always seemed to me to be 100-percent exposition, with no filler, no…

— Tom Shales

I would say that a lot of the characters I've been attracted to are very vulnerable and they expose themselves emotionally. Not…

— Amy Adams

Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and…

— Dan Scanlon

My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists…

— Samuel Beckett

“If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.”

— Amit Kalantri

I guess some characters always remain the same, and Macbeth is one of them.

— Abhimanyu Singh

All of my characters, I feel, have some essence of who I am in them.

— Gayle Rankin

An actor's off-screen persona should never overshadow his on-screen characters.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters.

— Liam Neeson

I believe in characters that can be tangible, and that you can actually relate to.

— Demian Bichir

I'm blessed and proud and privileged to have played two wonderful characters on television.

— Colin Cunningham

“In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.”

— Amit Kalantri

I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

— Beau Bridges

I'll often dream about characters before I start writing their stories.

— Francine Rivers

I try to create characters people want to sit with, even if nothing is happening.

— Jason Reynolds

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me.

— Donal Logue

I have tried to maintain the variety in the characters I choose to play.

— Neha Sharma

I like to make definite choices and give my characters as many unique edges as possible.

— Keegan Connor Tracy

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.

— Glenn Close

“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”

— Amit Kalantri