Characters Quotes · Page 22

“Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines.”

— Adam Phillips Going Sane

My women characters should not exist only to play the 'love interest' of a male character.

— Sriram Raghavan

Some characters need to be more performance-orientated; some, you have to be still.

— Laurence Fishburne

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

— Robert Crais

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

— Plato

I always look for characters that will hopefully develop into a more powerful symbol.

— Sydney Sweeney

Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.

— Rachel Cohn

I was always going to direct. I wasn't going to hand my characters over to anyone else.

— Dee Rees

It helps to be more interested in other people than you are in yourself. Inhabiting other characters is what I do.

— Shaun Evans

I may be the only actress in Hollywood who won't need a face lift, because when I take off my makeup, I…

— Lin Shaye

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character.…

— William Fichtner

Here [in Wonder Boys] I had this group of characters where you didn't know which were the important ones or what direction…

— Curtis Hanson

I love being able to play as many different characters, in as many different worlds as I possibly can. That's what I…

— Michael Sheen

“When awareness and alertness become integral parts of our character, our ignorance and fears gradually start dying out.”

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

“As long as there have been stories, there have been characters that refuse to stick to the outline.”

— Suzanne Selfors

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

— Jodi Picoult

I want to play so many different characters. I want to, like, understand so many different people, and psychoanalysis, everything. I love…

— Sylvia Hoeks

I like it when actors get an opportunity to chew into something. They love scenes with beginnings, middles, and ends - scenes…

— Tracy Letts

I do sometimes play characters that are a bit ambiguous. You've got to be brave about that sort of stuff. I like…

— Andrew Scott

You know, that kind of coldness, you know. And I think, yeah, I think that definitely helped. The female characters on the…

— Matt Robinson

I'm glad I get to do characters. It's just like a Polaroid shot of whoever the person is, and to me, anyway,…

— Fred Armisen

I like playing a variety of characters. I feel like I've been able to play different kinds of characters - I've done…

— James McAvoy

I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that…

— A. S. Byatt

Building upon the world we created with 'Avatar' has been a rare and incredibly rewarding experience. In writing the new films, I've…

— James Cameron

I'm interested in characters that have just a touch of madness.

— Greta Gerwig

People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.

— Judd Apatow

You have to present characters an audience can relate to.

— Nina Tassler

I always believed in my characters. I lived them

— Irene Dunne

You try not to judge the characters you're playing.

— Carrie-Anne Moss

“the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters”

— Tony Hoagland

You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel.

— Karin Slaughter

I tend to play a lot of characters that are 10 or 15 years older than me.

— Amanda Warren

“Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.”

— Amit Kalantri

The biggest reward for any actor is to be recognised by the characters they play.

— Varun Sharma

I've gotten really good at not judging characters.

— Sebastian Stan

I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.

— Allison Scagliotti

It only takes 140 characters to toss one's character out the window.

— LZ Granderson

I've played heavy characters in my first two films.

— Karthi

Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

— Rainn Wilson

“I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.”

— Anonymous