I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind. I think… — Daniel Sharman Copy Share Image
I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if… — Ronny Cox Copy Share Image
I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the… — Andrew Dominik Copy Share Image
I want readers turning pages until three o'clock in the morning. I want the themes of books to stick around for a… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series.… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
The truth is these characters [of Batman story] evolve, and there's a lot of hands in the supporting of these characters. It's… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
What we try to do at Disney and through Disney character voices is really maintain the integrity of our classic characters at… — Jodi Benson Copy Share Image
In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
I have played several characters that are crabby and cranky. I don't know if I'm just not a very well-developed human being… — Judy Greer Copy Share Image
I mean, I don't relate to characters who are perfect. If someone offers up somebody as a role model, I'm going to… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
I'm much more interested in lesser-known eccentrics and characters and performers. Like Matthew Buchinger, who was born in Germany in 1674, had… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
If it's a very emotional scene, you're kind of relieved when you've done it, kind of spent. And there are times when… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
I've been a huge fan of Hal Ashby forever. And I think that the distinctive thing about 'Coming Home' is the love… — Jonathan Levine Copy Share Image
I work very hard on finding good characters who can explain things to me, and I use them to help tell the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic… — Gary Dourdan Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I never had a problem handing over my characters to other creators is that I knew that they… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
The man I lived with is a Christian, so I would talk to him about it. What would this person do in… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't… — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
I have a lot of real life experience that I can draw on. And I think that shows in the characters that… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
I approach film no differently than I approach a role. I want to make sure the movie is right, the characters are… — Larenz Tate Copy Share Image
'The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears' is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. that is why I am equally fond of them all and equally… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters… — Kajal Aggarwal Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in characters who are closed down, but who open up when they choose to, rather than when they're obliged… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what's going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Aquaman has the ability to be a huge character, and I think we really brought him to a new level in comic… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
I've played characters who are dark and have done things I never have experienced, which is why I try to find the… — Michael Eklund Copy Share Image
As a kid, I just loved cartoons. And as the credits went by, I'd study those names and then try to figure… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
I believe that every character I create is in their own film, that happens to overlap with the main film. There are… — Ana Lily Amirpour Copy Share Image
While the TV show 'Rizzoli & Isles' may have been inspired by my books, show runner Janet Tamaro has total control over… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
It's a challenge for me to make people like me. Maybe it's just my desperate need for people to like me, that… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
For any actor, when you're playing twin brothers, you have to be able to find the similarities between them as well as… — Efren Ramirez Copy Share Image
Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play 'Girl Talk' to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor… — Carrie Preston Copy Share Image
It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image