Characters Quotes · Page 48

I just write characters, and somehow they happen to be a boy and a girl. When the story is put together, and…

— Imtiaz Ali

Every person has contributed to me as a human, but a lot of the characters I do are ones I created.

— Tracy Morgan

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

— Matthew Nable

The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses the line and the villain who sometimes…

— Geoff Johns

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their…

— Mary-Louise Parker

I think all of my male characters, I suppose, in all of my films, they're not necessarily the traditional version of masculinity.

— Andrew Haigh

Many people are taking 2D games and making them into 3D games by recreating the characters in polygons. But the gameplay's still…

— Hideo Kojima

'Game of Thrones' is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense…

— Jim Rash

I always knew that I wanted to do voiceovers as part of my career. I just kind of didn't expect it to…

— Kari Wahlgren

The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page.…

— Rachel Joyce

I just want to play strong characters, whatever that is in. For me, television is where it's at. You get to play…

— Paula Malcomson

I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing 'Cum Laude.' So many of the…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

I do have a huge fascination for science, and I love to hear what my dad has to say. He used to…

— Daniela Ruah

A lot of my characters are born out of a small grain in a person that I heighten and take to that…

— Lauren Lapkus

Meeting everyone you wanted to know in the small surf industry, I saw how the surf trade was made up of characters…

— John Van Hamersveld

We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but…

— Ronald Frame

Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.

— Jodie Foster

I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party…

— Dana Carvey

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life,…

— Laurie Graham

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

— Chadwick Boseman

Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be…

— Robert Rodriguez

I don't tend to cast roles in my head because I spend so much time with these characters and the drawings that…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to…

— Conor Oberst

If I just sit here, what am I going to do? I don't have a trade. I don't teach or anything. I…

— Elmore Leonard

My films are very rooted in specific people's point of view. Some film-makers give a more global point of view, like God…

— Doug Liman

“Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I'm drawn towards people who have a little pathos and a little dark side, and I feel the same towards fictional characters.

— Lisa Hanawalt

The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because…

— Clive Owen

I've always maintained that all characters and all personalities are in all of us. The whole thing is available. You're not this…

— Richard Gere

“If [the characters] grow a lot, they begin to influence the course of the story instead of the other way around.”

— Stephen King

I like characters with problems. I like to understand them... To play alcoholics, fetishists, strange girls, you have to dig deep within…

— Marie Trintignant

I remember the guest stars who came, they were always trying to find a new plot for their characters because they wanted…

— Caroline Dhavernas

People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort…

— Brent Weeks

You can't rewrite the history books; you can't eliminate the impact of my work and my characters.

— Rob Liefeld

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I have a lot of people in my life who are truly ridiculous characters, and they're very, very funny people, but they…

— Emile Hirsch

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the…

— Francine Rivers

The stories in 'Parenthood' are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel…

— Jason Katims

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

— Jeanette Winterson