“In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.” — Jefferson Smith Copy Share Image
I like to do on screen what I'm not in life. In life, I'm much more weak and insecure, and so then… — Monica Bellucci Copy Share Image
I'm always on the side of the characters, rather than the side of the people attacking them. I get realistic. It's not… — Alexandre Aja Copy Share Image
“The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
You know, I really enjoy longevity. I see actors in their forties and they just turn out these really fabulous roles and… — Kelly Reilly Copy Share Image
I can't single out one of my books or characters as a favorite. In the same way that I don't have a… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I love acting is because I'm so interested in other people's lives, and I often incorporate things I… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
I enjoy playing a quintessential antihero. There's something therapeutic about playing such characters. I know it sounds corny but I feel like… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity.… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I loved Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's 'Inside No 9.' The way that they constrained each episode to a single location, then… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
Kellie Overbey gave me this play called 'Girl Talk.' I read it and totally fell in love with the characters. I told… — Carrie Preston Copy Share Image
All the characters on the album are inside me, though none are me. They are sides of me or who I was. — David Berman Copy Share Image
I dont want to just play gay characters, ... I think it would get boring to play the same thing again and… — Rupert Everett Copy Share Image
My characters all have issues, but I don't see that as weird or abnormal because I think in real life there are… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Damita Jo. Jo. That's my middle name. It's let in about the different characters that live within me. They say we have… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters. — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
Most evil characters, if they're not psychopathic, they become that way because they believe in what they're doing. — Billy Burke Copy Share Image
“When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
Very often the characters people respond to best have little parts of reality they can relate to. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or… — John Wells Copy Share Image
Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point. — Michael Zaslow Copy Share Image
I am one of these characters who seems to thrive off a little bit of niggle, a little bit of pressure. — Stuart Broad Copy Share Image
I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way. — Catherine Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
Yes, I certainly look for strong characters - whether that means they're strong in their vulnerability or strong in the way they… — Vicky McClure Copy Share Image
To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism. — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all. — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people. — David Walton Copy Share Image
As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move. — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
“Characters, for good or evil, are part of an author's family. Once we have let them out of our imaginations, they stay… — Andrew Ferrell Copy Share Image
