Characters Quotes · Page 8

All my characters have been relatable.

— Kartik Aaryan

I don't exactly relate to grey characters.

— Kay Kay Menon

I base all my characters on hair.

— Patrick Dempsey

Six Characters in Search of an Author.

— Luigi Pirandello

My characters hope for better lives.

— Octavia E. Butler

I always liked strange characters.

— Tim Burton

I like taking up exceptional characters.

— Sudha Chandran

I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters.

— Ruth Wilson

“Characters are limbs that writers use to kill with.”

— Joseph Eastwood

I like fractured characters with human follies.

— Rajiv Menon

I guess I find it easy to play uptight characters.

— Miranda Otto

I like three-dimensional characters - it's just more interesting when you get on set.

— Daniel Kaluuya

I think the most interesting characters are those in which you can see both sides.

— Sebastian Koch

Fans want to see a story with characters, and they want to see a story.

— Martin Freeman

“Never let your character say "how could it get any worse"…it always does.”

— Kimi Alexandre

Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.

— Joanne Harris

As long as it comes across, the characters are well-served, the stories are good, and people like it, that's it for me.…

— Jim Cummings

I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous,…

— Clive Owen

Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life,…

— Kim Cattrall

I like to put my characters through a lot, so, in 'Talon,' my fans will find familiar themes of bravery and sacrifice,…

— Julie Kagawa

I'm always playing these mendacious characters who end up hoisting themselves by their own petard.

— Maxwell Caulfield

I never judge the characters I'm asked to play, and I don't need to feel that they are a part of me.

— Kim Bodnia

I've been really lucky to play sort of a diverse array of characters over my relatively short career, although it feels really…

— Allison Scagliotti

Shows like 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends,' they have, like, one or two damn characters throughout the whole series that are minorities.

— Esai Morales

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the…

— Angelina Jolie

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances…

— Erich Hoeber

At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, heroes and heroines grow not only…

— Sarah MacLean

These characters, they have to evolve. They're getting older on the show, these are things that happen in everyone's life. People do…

— Kunal Nayyar

You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind…

— Joel Coen

I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms,…

— Vikram Seth

It's something I'd find rather distracting in a historical piece, looking at characters that have obviously just gotten off their Ab Blaster.…

— Tom Weston-Jones

I think all my characters haunt me. Especially the real-life ones, like Master Chief Carl Brashear, the Tuskagee Airmen. Every time I…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

“I have closed my study door on the world and shut myself away with people of my imagination. For nearly sixty years…

— Diane Setterfield

“My characters push the limits of the envelope when it comes to passion, love, and lust. They can be as elegant and…

— Neale Sourna

“My problem as a writer is that—whenever I meet someone for the first time—I immediately invent for them a personality and background…

— James Rozoff

“No one ever developed their character by arranging their experiences in such a way that only ‘good’ things are allowed to happen…

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

I don't know who they are[my characters] . They're entirely invented characters. Maybe that's how I've been able to write so many…

— T.C. Boyle

I'm drawn to female characters, not all of them are strong characters. I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they…

— Todd Haynes

“Sometimes I think they’re the only really sensible people—the off-beat characters who don’t make sense at all. They create their own world…

— Cameron Hawley

“The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in a…

— P.G. Wodehouse