Characters Quotes · Page 5

When good things come in, my agent calls or sends me the script. But I allow them to sort through the offers…

— Megan Fox

I normally play very serious characters.

— Kylie Bunbury

Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing…

— Harlan Coben

You have to create characters - certainly in series TV - who people engage with. They don't have to be nice; you…

— Michael Hirst

I would say of characters I've created, the one I've felt the most connected to emotionally was Adam Austin from 'The Prophet.'…

— Michael Koryta

You have to always try to think about them like real people first, and not just heroes. They have to be real…

— Greg Berlanti

We're moved by emotions and characters and stories. We love that.

— David Droga

“I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a…

— Chris Stocking

The negative characters made me very popular but were getting too monotonous.

— Sudha Chandran

All too often, female characters, in particular, aren't multi-layered enough.

— Ruth Bradley

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

— Carrie-Anne Moss

Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What…

— Deborah Moggach

“All worries are less with wine.”

— Amit Kalantri

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

— Ellen Potter

Zlatan has been fantastic. He's one of the best characters I've played with.

— Phil Jones

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise…

— William Lashner

People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.

— Paul Schrader

I toy around with the whole Biblical thing, just as amazing characters.

— Isaac Brock

Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world…

— Jesmyn Ward

I've been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I've done have been very different, and…

— Dakota Fanning

I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.

— Todd Haynes

For me, I never look down at my characters.

— Riley Stearns

One of the defining things about my career on camera is I like to play different characters. That gets difficult to do.…

— Diedrich Bader

I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that…

— Ridley Scott

I don't like sympathetic characters.

— Howard Barker