Characters Quotes · Page 52

Do I seem to play characters that in the end don't get the girl? Maybe. But you don't always get the girl…

— Scott Foley

I thought, 'I loved Batman, I loved Spider-Man, I love all these characters, but Catwoman is really different from any other one.'

— Denise Di Novi

It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the…

— Tim Crouch

A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines,…

— Hayden Schlossberg

You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' - the variety of characters was so…

— J. B. Smoove

Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of…

— Raymond E. Feist

My biggest disappointment is that once I'm finished working on the characters, I really do expect to see them in the flesh…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

Everyone wants the two characters to be together, but then once they are, it's not that much fun.

— Shelley Long

In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in…

— Joni Mitchell

Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can…

— Edward Rutherfurd

But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these…

— Jim McKay

I try to do as much as possible for every character. Some of them, it is easier to do the research because…

— Penelope Cruz

We're trying to tell a very full story of 'Nashville' and these characters in Nashville, and I'm really hopeful that we're going…

— Connie Britton

I'd say I'm drawn to characters that ring true to me. Adolescence is a troubled time for everyone, so a lot of…

— Ezra Miller

To what extent do we self-construct, do we self-invent? How do we self-identify, and how mutable is that identity? Like, what if…

— Sarah Jones

With my physicality and my face, I don't think I could pull off a completely righteous guy. There's something devious about my…

— Emraan Hashmi

It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view.

— Mike White

I believe in books. I believe more in 'cross-media' - how characters are adapting across mediums.

— Bing Gordon

I admired shows like 'Six Feet Under.' That was an amazing show. Never boring, always inventive, smart. Loved the characters. Completely original.…

— Chris Carter

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.

— Peter Orner

I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.

— Kevin Spacey

With all of my characters, I don't go into it thinking I want to explore this part of myself.

— Cole Escola

I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.

— Emily Blunt

Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to…

— Diedrich Bader

Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and…

— Greta Gerwig

Part of the beauty of a long-format story is that the characters become as much yours as they are mine, and you…

— Joshua Jackson

I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to…

— Rachel Weisz

I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

— David Bowie

There's no game plan when it comes to thinking up new characters; inspiration can come from anything - from a wig I've…

— Catherine Tate

Macklin, being Macklin, just took on a life of his own. I almost never use real people as models for my characters.

— James Patterson

“Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.”

— Amit Kalantri

The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had…

— Dan Castellaneta

O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.

— Gabriel Byrne

The characters I usually get offered are described as 'none too bright' or 'funny but a little air-brained.'

— Didi Conn

My feeling with my characters is that they all have a right to feel exactly the way that they do, so I…

— Scott Thompson

I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or…

— Christopher Koch

I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen…

— Alaina Huffman

When we have trans actors play trans characters, people can look onscreen and say, 'OK, this is what trans is.'

— Nicole Maines

I'm not saying I talk to cartoon characters all the time, but the characters are very real to me. In a very…

— Paul Dini

“In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.”

— Amit Kalantri