I need to make the characters that I play in movies more accessible to audiences, more real. As an actor, you're always… — Shu Qi Copy Share Image
I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
I make no secret of the fact that writing She-Hulk can serve as an opportunity for me to sneak in some really… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
There are characters that have made me uncomfortable. I did a film called 'Rob Roy,' and I played Killearn, who was this… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
I hate shows, personally, where people stand around tossing stuff at each other, and any character can say any line, because you… — Bill Lawrence Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had most in mind, and James Joyce's… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
In other people's books, I tend to love the really daredevil-y characters. I love Finnick from 'The Hunger Games.' And I think,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
The process changes slightly from role to role. Obviously, there are different things you're called on to do. You're not digging deep… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
I think that if youve got 5 million people that enjoy drama and invest in characters, you must take the time to… — Max Beesley Copy Share Image
When we start shooting I don't have rehearsals with characters at all. So, rather than pulling them towards myself, I travel closer… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot with every character, everything from being a cop, to a lawyer to a tattoo artist. And underneath that… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
Inventing characters is extraordinary: proper authors say so often that characters 'just appear' and that does happen. These people keep leaping out… — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
“Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I feel like my experience on 'Community' was that I saw just how important that first year is for a series. That… — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
'Benidorm' is such a great show. There's nothing else like it. You might think the characters are far-fetched, but then you get… — Sheridan Smith Copy Share Image
My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I like characters who have two different things going on, whether it is Robin from 'Top Of The Lake' having that strength… — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most of the time... well, I don't.… — Hans Matheson Copy Share Image
At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
At the beginning, everything's possible and everybody gets equal time, all the characters, all the ideas. You don't know who's going to… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
I'm interested in a lot. Like right now, I'm just really excited for 'Catching Fire' and 'Mockingjay' Part 1 and 2. But… — Willow Shields Copy Share Image
They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because… — Guy Ritchie Copy Share Image
It's not like I don't want to play the guy next door. But sometimes they're not the best written or the most… — Kim Coates Copy Share Image
I think it's a wonderful thing to have African-American characters. Look at life. It's not a white world or a black world;… — Darius McCrary Copy Share Image
It's seldom that you find great moments in television. Usually you remember - in 'Breaking Bad' or any of these other great… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
In the characters that I play, I'm so involved in the look; it's very, very important to me. Because how a person… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
Any time you read a book and get attached to the characters, to me it's always a shock when it goes from… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and… — Peter Cushing Copy Share Image
I do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
I must have been 10 or 11, but anything Dana Carvey ever did, I just really loved. He was on for a… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected.… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
My Mom and Dad did it pretty good, so I know it can work. The foremost thing I would say about working… — Nick Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I've played historical characters before, and I think the trap of all of them is if you try to do an impression.… — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
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