Characters Quotes · Page 16

I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.

— Matthew Perry

“During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.”

— Amit Kalantri

There's a very strong force in Tolkien's characters.

— Richard Armitage

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

— David E. Kelley

You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

— Will Schwalbe

Those are always fun characters to play, the ones who are stupid but speak with authority.

— Alan Tudyk

I have been lucky enough to portray many, many characters.

— Mohanlal

My characters are often without a significant parental figure.

— Jamie Bell

Part of the beauty of a long-format story is that the characters become as much yours as they are mine, and you…

— Joshua Jackson

I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to…

— Rachel Weisz

Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to…

— Diedrich Bader

Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and…

— Greta Gerwig

I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.

— Emily Blunt

With all of my characters, I don't go into it thinking I want to explore this part of myself.

— Cole Escola

“Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.”

— Amit Kalantri

Macklin, being Macklin, just took on a life of his own. I almost never use real people as models for my characters.

— James Patterson

There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's…

— Zooey Deschanel

My gut knotted as I wrote from the point of view of characters whose lives were rooted in bigotry and intolerance. But…

— Karen Hesse

There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that…

— Hannah Murray

One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what…

— Nancy Horan

Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what…

— Anonymous

About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy,…

— Ken Watanabe

'Boomerang!' I love that movie just because of Halle Berry, Robin Givens, Eddie Murphy, Grace Jones and Eartha Kitt. There were so…

— Drew Sidora

One of the things that's important for anybody adapting source material that is primarily a male buddy picture is to find ways…

— Bryan Fuller

It's almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors.

— Doug Liman

Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

— Julian Barnes

I like characters who remind me of someone I know.

— Mia Wasikowska

The kind of actors I admire move through different characters and genres.

— Andrew Scott

I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them.

— Quentin Tarantino

I have been taught to do justice to the characters I play irrespective of the medium.

— Nikitin Dheer

I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me.

— Jack Nicholson

I have just been lucky to get challenging characters every time.

— Sriti Jha

I have always included minority characters in my stories, often as heroes.

— Stan Lee

“People like to identify with characters in danger.”

— Rob Parnell

They [my characters]speak to me all the time! In fact some of them never shut up!

— Michael Scott

Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.”

— Amit Kalantri

I toy around with the whole Biblical thing, just as amazing characters.

— Isaac Brock

I think I am fascinated with slightly tragic characters.

— Janhvi Kapoor

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

— Izabella Scorupco