Characters Quotes · Page 51

My body has done for me all these years things I couldn't ever even dreamt to do for characters. It's a tool,…

— Melissa Leo

The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role…

— Paul Newman

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint…

— Andie MacDowell

People know me through my characters. I don't think they have any idea about the individual that I am. They know I…

— Fahadh Faasil

What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make…

— Nancy Kress

I love the idea of writing these huge, bombastic characters; I'll stay in the superhero world as long as I can.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I tell about some of the female characters from the Bible so girls can be inspired and empowered and uplifted.

— Roma Downey

If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do…

— Kari Matchett

I try to choose characters that are very different; I think I have succeeded in that. A big role or a small…

— Nithya Menen

Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

I love playing different characters. I just do. I want to play even more quirky and interesting characters and just something that…

— Dave Bautista

There are a lot of very flamboyant and outlandish people and attention-seekers in L.A., and I think that's what makes L.A. appealing.…

— Roman Coppola

That's what was so amazing about 'Mulan.' Here is this story with all Chinese characters, and yet so many people related to…

— Ming-Na Wen

I think 'G.I. Joe' is a perfect example of how I'm the world's worst businessman. If I were smart, I'd be writing…

— Max Brooks

The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women...…

— Natalie Dormer

“If they are good characters, they have minds of their owns. If they are great characters, they go stomping off into the…

— Wendi Kelly

That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.

— Ben Barnes

I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer

— Alison Lohman

I love some films with very silent characters, people who don't speak, but I wouldn't be able to do that.

— Arnaud Desplechin

Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of…

— Dwayne Johnson

There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on…

— Garth Ennis

I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of…

— Peter Dinklage

That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth.…

— R. A. Salvatore

I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show…

— Elizabeth Meriwether

“Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.”

— Amit Kalantri

'Homeland' really is one of those shows where they start to write more or less depending on what's kind of going on…

— Raza Jaffrey

I don't have any special approach for playing dark characters. That's because I never looked at them as dark characters per se.…

— Tabu

I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.

— Charles de Lint

“Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are real or just characters in one of my novels.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

One of the things you have to be acutely aware of when shooting episodes out of order is your character's relationship with…

— Gina Bellman

I am a tremendous 'Star Wars' fan; I know the story means an enormous love to me. I love the characters.

— Richard Marquand

For me, the music is always speaking from the point of view of the characters. Rarely do you score an event.

— Michael Giacchino

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.

— John Cazale

In Bengali films, I played my version of glamorous, where I played a wide-ranging characters.

— Riya Sen

Befikre' is not just about two characters. There is another very prominent third character, and that is Paris.

— Vaani Kapoor

'Downton Abbey' is one of my favourite shows ever - it's just beautifully filmed, and the stories and characters are so wonderful.

— Amanda Donohoe

I tend to use a lot of movement in both camera and characters, and I also tend to give characters a lot…

— Kari Skogland

There were so few Asians on-screen when I grew up, and the ones who were on-screen weren't given complex characters to play.

— Constance Wu

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

— Harlan Coben