Characters Quotes · Page 37

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

— Eric Brown

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the…

— Jordana Brewster

I can find some part of me that relates to even the most evil characters. At least in my imagination.

— Richard Brake

The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has…

— Crystal Chappell

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've been really fortunate in the fact that I've gotten a chance to do a real wide range of all different kinds…

— Juliet Landau

Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities.

— Charlaine Harris

Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.

— Edmund White

I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found…

— Randy Harrison

The thing is, I never see my characters as psychopaths. I see them as really crippled victims who just happen to do…

— Michael Eklund

There's so many different people that I'm fascinated by. Different kinds of characters that I meet in, like, everyday life, that I'm…

— Tatiana Maslany

I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table.…

— Nicolas Cage

What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment…

— Ira Sachs

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about…

— Callie Khouri

I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and…

— Patrick Marber

I've always loved shows that combine both approaches - that have a mythology and a set of characters, whose stories develop and…

— Jonathan Nolan

A lot of the characters I've played before are heroic or invincible in some ways and not tuned into fear and anxiety…

— Jason Statham

Sometimes your characters in films do things that you wouldn't do. You're not playing yourself all the time.

— Kristen Stewart

I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'

— Lorrie Moore

The most natural thing for us is drawing. The characters [in Persepolis] are hand drawn. We're not technical people. We don't know…

— Marjane Satrapi

Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean…

— Park Bo-gum

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is…

— Joel Coen

I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too,…

— Conor McPherson

I've had the opportunity to do a wide range of stuff, a lot of different characters and they've all had their own…

— Tony Hale

Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved…

— Thorne Smith

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I…

— Spike Jonze

“Whereas Mirabelle is tall, thin and sad, Vesta is physically and emotionally her opposite.”

— Sara Sheridan

“What happens in my next chapter depends on whether I wake up feeling creative or murderous.”

— Joyce Rachelle

You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story -…

— Jill McCorkle

You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.

— Candace Bushnell

We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together.

— Anonymous

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that…

— Ben Whishaw

There are a lot of actresses out there who are the girl next door. I relate more to characters who have an…

— Eliza Dushku

One year, my family and I dressed up in the theme of 'Wizard of Oz' for Halloween. We all went as the…

— Luke Benward

I can't be an arm candy to the hero. I need to play characters that have layers, that people can relate to.

— Shweta Tripathi

I try not to think too much about where my voice comes from. I'm channeling characters and emotion to come up with…

— Gin Wigmore

“When a plot won't move forward, it's almost always because there's something I don't know about the characters or the world or…

— Rachel Aaron

Because I grew up in Africa, I always see people and try to understand characters as what kind of animal they'd be.

— Richard E. Grant

I love all the 'Twilight' characters. I can watch Kristen Stewart and think, 'I want to be that role someday.'

— Mary Mouser

A lot of times the characters I play tend to be kind of loners or they don't have best friends or best…

— Michael Shannon