Characters Quotes · Page 11

You have to like the characters you play.

— Ted McGinley

I really believe in the characters I play.

— Minnie Driver

Sometimes my characters are not myself.

— Umberto Eco

Few characters in history are indispensable.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

I never act my characters - I am them.

— Drew Barrymore

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

— Henry David Thoreau

My characters always like themselves.

— Amy Sedaris

I'm about my characters.

— Abel Ferrara

I'm drawn to playing characters who are terribly flawed and have no idea about it.

— Catherine O'Hara

I think all characters that we play are facets of ourselves.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

— Anton Yelchin

What impresses me the most about DC characters is how long a lot of them have been around.

— Cliff Chiang

“He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.”

— Amit Kalantri

The negative characters made me very popular but were getting too monotonous.

— Sudha Chandran

It's always fun to play characters that are different from me.

— Zoe Lister-Jones

“There are 26 characters in the alphabet, and what characters they are! Especially Q.”

— Jarod Kintz

I may be the only actress in Hollywood who won't need a face lift, because when I take off my makeup, I…

— Lin Shaye

It helps to be more interested in other people than you are in yourself. Inhabiting other characters is what I do.

— Shaun Evans

One of the things that I've been trying to do with my characters, one of the things that does lead to me…

— Stephen Moyer

Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have…

— Ed Helms

A pilot is like the most extensive dress rehearsal you can ever imagine, because the writers are learning about the actors, the…

— Kim Cattrall

The characters in 'Be Near Me' come from a genuine place, a Britain that is more than one country and more than…

— Andrew O'Hagan

I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite…

— Emily Giffin

I am attracted to the complexities and deeper truths of characters, and I can't name a favourite role any more than I…

— Sharon Lawrence

My last two characters have been Denethor and Walter Bishop. Both will be hard acts to follow. That sits in the hands…

— John Noble

A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That's a whole,…

— Mike Nichols

You start to fall in love with characters as you work with them, and anytime that you care about your characters and…

— Drew Goddard

There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say…

— Richard Dawkins

I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why…

— Natalie Portman

One of those things that I like about TV is that if you get a group of people you like, you can…

— Denis Leary

With 'Sin Nombre,' there are parts that I wish were longer. And with 'Jane Eyre' especially, there were parts that I had…

— Cary Fukunaga

I'm glad I get to do characters. It's just like a Polaroid shot of whoever the person is, and to me, anyway,…

— Fred Armisen

“All worries are less with wine.”

— Amit Kalantri

I love playing characters that have secrets.

— Cynthia Watros

I love con-men characters in film.

— Simon Baker

I'm the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.

— Donald Trump

Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.

— Max von Sydow

For years, humorous characters in cartoons have been almost exclusively male.

— Paul Dini

Notable characters do not alone bear trouble; they use it.

— Hugh B. Brown

As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be.

— Kurt Sutter