Characters Quotes · Page 57

I've played so many different roles over more than 15 years, but I still hope to play more various characters.

— Hyun Bin

One of my pet peeves about biblical epics was that the characters' costumes always looked like they're just out of the dry…

— Roma Downey

It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the…

— L.A. Weatherly

“Life is better than any movie or TV show. In real life there is no plot and there are billions of characters.”

— Marc Pamittan

I like playing characters that fit my age and represent that time and the situations we face.

— Hyun Bin

“Characters are like kids. They want to be played with, taken on adventures. And they won't let you rest until you do.”

— Buffy Andrews

I don't have a clear biography of my own that I could recount in an interesting way. I'm made up of the…

— Olga Tokarczuk

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

— Penelope Wilton

A lot of characters that are from the Midwest are not bad people, but they just believe in really different things. And…

— Megan Stalter

In animation, you can throw away people's defense. You can go right to the center of things, right through inside someone's heart.…

— Timothy Dalton

In 'The Prophet' I really fell in love with those characters, there was an emotional connection there that I don't think I've…

— Michael Koryta

“Not so with our characters. They have no metaphysics, no order, no law. They are miserable and they don’t know why. They…

— Eugène Ionesco

I like to create characters that are larger than life. But it's funny because I do a lot of bad guys, and…

— Peter Stormare

“As far as my characters doing what I want them to, I'm afraid I'm not a real writer like the rest of…

— Jessie Chandler

It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day…

— George R. R. Martin

I usually focus on the whole group of characters in any given work-in-progress, and as a result they become particularly dear to…

— Vera Nazarian

There are so many quirky characters, it's easy to fall in love with any number of the characters on 'The Carrie Diaries'.

— Brendan Dooling

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn't be acting.

— Anna Paquin

A lot of readers want characters to behave in a responsible way, or they want to understand the characters' dilemma and act,…

— Susan Minot

I just have that cop gene going on. I like strong women. I think a lot of women relate to strong characters,…

— Ally Walker

Whenever I do a movie I always like to base my character off of a couple different characters.

— The Miz

With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their…

— Patrick Wilson

Where are the good guys with disfigurements, where are the characters with disfigurements where it isn't even mentioned?

— Adam Pearson

I think those are the kind of characters I like to play, people who are flawed and human because we all are.

— Simone Missick

I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.

— Kathryn Lasky

'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are…

— Carlton Cuse

Psych yourself up until you're confident that the world will be interested in what happens to your characters. Confidence is key.

— Deborah Moggach

If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen…

— Morris Gleitzman

If you don't invest in the characters, you don't care if they get killed. It's more fun if you know them.

— Robert Englund

We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

In general, I'm always interested in characters who have kind of extreme aspects to them, who are in some ways larger than…

— Fred Melamed

The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars…

— Clint Eastwood

I love the wilder, more outlandish characters that are hard to make believable. Those are the ones I want to play.

— Allison Janney

I'm looking for diversity, all my characters may or may not be on the wrong side of the tracks. It doesn't mean…

— Michael K. Williams

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

— Alphonse Karr

I didn't realise my upbringing was unusual until my teens. As the child of two actors, I presumed that visiting film sets…

— Emilia Fox

“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.”

— Amit Kalantri

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

— Nic Pizzolatto

I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.

— Nicolas Cage

I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters.

— Sune Rose Wagner