Characters Quotes · Page 56

Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them.

— William G. Tapply

There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about…

— Peter Ackroyd

“Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions." ( Letter to Alexander Chekhov , May 10, 1886)”

— Anton Chekhov

When you are dealing with something that's crazy, you still want actors to play characters and find the reality of the situation,…

— Drew Goddard

All the characters I've ever played have really had nothing to do with looks. There's a lot of things that are a…

— Sarah Baker

I say characters who are strong and wrong just have an assuredness about them that you can't even wrap your head around,…

— Ego Nwodim

I'm a great planner, so before I ever write chapter 1, I work out what happens in every chapter and who the…

— Ken Follett

For me, playing characters is always about an energy and feeling it in your body. That's when I know that the character…

— Sian Clifford

During shooting, you have the idea, like, of this certain dress on this actress, but it's not to fit, so you have…

— Wong Kar-wai

“It is sometimes the minor, not the major, characters in a novel who hold the author's affection longest. It may be that…

— Larry McMurtry

I was kind of a cross between Kristy and Mary Anne among 'The Baby-Sitters Club' characters. I was shy, but I was…

— Raina Telgemeier

You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of…

— Aaron Stanford

The characters I'm most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You don't see them regularly…

— Mary Doria Russell

Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love…

— Regina Brett

There's not one thing that inspires me the most. Me and my friends joke around with each other and hang out so…

— Adam DeVine

Cliched characters are cliches because they're people being described by people who are on the outside. If you take two sentences from…

— Michael Cudlitz

The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but…

— Thomas Steinbeck

Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with…

— Sir Fulke Greville

I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the…

— Jessica Lange

I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters…

— Jonathan Winters

We see the worst versions of ourselves - things we did or could have done - in the characters who inspire us.

— Dave McCary

“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”

— Amit Kalantri

And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very…

— Laura Innes

I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me.

— Miranda July

I like to play characters, man. I almost don't even think of them as good guys or bad guys. I know that's…

— Kevin Bacon

No matter what's happening in my life, I can always get lost in the romances of my characters.

— Amanda Seyfried

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read…

— Thomas Browne

I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.

— Richard LaGravenese

I really don't like to go for the stereotypes. I try to give you characters that you don't know until you get…

— Fede Alvarez

“Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.”

— Amit Kalantri

It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters,…

— Walter Hill

Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast…

— Dan Gilroy

“Very few people are able to discount the effect of circumstances upon their own characters.”

— Bertrand Russell

I always find something in all the characters I play. I fall in love with them a little bit.

— Sophie Okonedo

“It’s just funny, isn’t it? How the main characters never know about the adventures they’re about to go on.”

— Brittainy C. Cherry

Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have…

— Tamsin Egerton

I feel this way about a lot of movies, that the characters are idealized versions of people. For better or worse, I…

— Greg Mottola

There are stories to be told that are still untold and characters to be portrayed that haven't been portrayed correctly. So there's…

— Shonda Rhimes

I become my characters, and then try to allow events in the story to take their own course. I try not to…

— Michael Morpurgo

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

— Joel Edgerton