Characters Quotes · Page 54

The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get…

— Taissa Farmiga

There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone…

— Stephen Graham

I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me.

— Maria Bamford

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them…

— Ruth Ozeki

Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity…

— Tom Hollander

I can't write my films in La-La Land. I don't know how to write for my characters like that.

— Kabir Khan

I love gritty drama. I'm passionate about films and drama that make you think - hard-hitting, gravelly characters.

— Emma Rigby

Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are…

— Joel Hodgson

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

— Michael Hirst

People are infinitely more interesting than characters that I come up with. Because the characters I come up with are basically combinations…

— Sarnath Banerjee

The Master of Ceremonies in 'Bridge and Tunnel' is a wonderful man, if I do say so myself. I talk about all…

— Sarah Jones

I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way…

— Lauren Oliver

I always find it actually funny that the analysis is that the characters I play in comedies are the manchild, the adolescent,…

— Will Ferrell

All my work is partly biographical. I mean, 'Crash' was absolutely that, absolutely. But you just wouldn't recognize me in most of…

— Paul Haggis

The decision to work with Marvel for a while isn't any sort of denigration of DC. I had a fantastic time there,…

— Charles Soule

I always used to pretend to be different characters - cowboys, that sort of thing. I used to think that the Indians…

— Aneurin Barnard

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as…

— Paul Auster

Your character is always right. No real person thinks they're being stupid or misguided or bigoted or evil or just plain wrong…

— Tana French

You have to make sure you have the characters you want. That's really the most complicated part.

— Joan Didion

“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”

— Amit Kalantri

Even good characters have their dark sides, and I think it is important that women aren't seen as innately good.

— Gillian Flynn

I've played a couple of gay characters onstage, and it's always been something I'm comfortable with. I grew up in a family…

— Seth Numrich

Am I attracted to people who want to give other people a voice? Yes I am, and that may be a 'common…

— Sarah Lancashire

You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I…

— Danny McBride

Characters aren't a fling. They aren't a one-night stand. Getting to know them takes time and hard work. It takes excessive free…

— Margaret Foley

My characters are always people who are a bit delusional about how great they are. Like they're losing their minds, but they're…

— Megan Stalter

I think that's what makes characters interesting - when you paint a person into a corner, and you see what they do…

— Andre Holland

I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.

— Orlando Bloom

“I won't sacrifice my characters morals/intentions/motives for the sake of what I believe is right or wrong. If the action fits the…

— James DeSantis

“Most people carry their demons around with them, buried down deep inside. Writers wrestle their demons to the surface, fling them onto…

— CK Webb

I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed…

— Eugene Levy

I really enjoy playing intelligent characters. I'm more interested in that than just emotional kind of Mum characters.

— Miranda Otto

I guess I've always been drawn to roles that have smart characters commenting on what's happening around them.

— Alia Shawkat

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make…

— Dana Carvey

The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere.

— Ridley Scott

I may have a story idea but everything starts moving when I am able to see my characters clearly. They then organically…

— Kanika Dhillon

I believe the audience likes to see well-defined characters on screen than just larger-than-life heroes.

— Nani

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

— Anthony Horowitz

I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys,…

— Barry Eisler

I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only…

— George R. R. Martin