Characters Quotes · Page 6

“It's not a romance, it's a love story.”

— Sadie Jones

“Hunger gives flavour to the food.”

— Amit Kalantri

Well, for one, I don't judge my characters.

— Taraji P. Henson

All of my characters have a glint of madness.

— Nicolas Cage

I love playing confused, broken characters.

— Nina Dobrev

A story is built on characters and reasons.

— Steven Amsterdam

There are good characters and bad characters.

— Matt Stone

Characters can stay with you.

— Cameron Britton

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

— Clint Eastwood

You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.

— Sophie Marceau

Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters.

— Will Arnett

“Music is the fastest motivator in the world.”

— Amit Kalantri

Now, it's weird not to have gay characters on a show.

— Megan Mullally

Your characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter.

— Tina Fey

I'm open to different kinds of roles, characters and genres.

— Diana Penty

When I write, I try to become different characters.

— Billie Eilish

There's so many characters they [studios] are not letting me play. And I thought, "Why don't you just go produce it yourself?".

— George Hamilton

If you can't laugh at your own characters, or shed a tear for them, or even get angry at one of them,…

— Johanna Lindsey

I think the thing I took most from game playing was just getting in the characters head. I took it really seriously.…

— Drew Goddard

I always respond to characters who have depth. I'm always interested in those people. They're the ones who surprise you.

— Miriam Shor

Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to…

— Douglas Coupland

A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

— Jack Kirby

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the…

— Paul Auster

Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant…

— Khaled Hosseini

“And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he were back…

— Franz Kafka

I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in 'Dumbo's Circus.' I'm used to getting…

— Jim Cummings

I feel like a lot of girl characters in anything usually end up being either extremely tough or extremely ditzy. There's always…

— Pendleton Ward

I don't play comedy as comedy. That would be the biggest trap. I think about the characters and their situations. Then you…

— Penelope Cruz

You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply…

— Walter Kirn

I think a lot of times stereotypes come when there are disconnected white writers who maybe have two or three black friends,…

— Dorian Missick

I'm not particularly fond of playing villains. I do want to be a working actor, and I've had to look at what…

— Sharlto Copley

I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers,…

— Karl Marlantes

“Q:Alaska wasn't introduced as fully as the other characters even though the book largely centres around the effect she had on people…

— John Green

I'm sure you find it fascinating. It's always interesting for everybody to look at people who've been pushed to the brink. You…

— Christian Bale

I truly believe that we have so many different characters. My father, when he is in the boxing gym, is 'Floyd Joy.'…

— Floyd Mayweather

I do not invent characters. There they are. That's who they are. That's their nature. They talk and they behave the way…

— Edward Albee

“It was not my intention - it never was - to invent a character who should speak for me, the author, in…

— Eudora Welty

I find myself speaking through the other characters, putting ideas in their voices and heads. Writing almost becomes a splitting of myself…

— Danzy Senna

I'm drawn to real-life characters. A lot of the characters I play, I've had in me since second grade. I've been dragging…

— Amy Sedaris

“For Gone Girl, I knew Nick and Amy had to be very believable, so I made ipod playlists for them, and knew…

— Gillian Flynn