Characters Quotes · Page 22

“Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.”

— Amit Kalantri

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

— Alexander McCall Smith

I was the nerdy one. I always played those kind of characters until Mad Men.

— Christina Hendricks

“Characters who simply have goals opposed by others do not create the effects of a story.”

— Bill Johnson

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me, if that makes any sense.

— Donal Logue

Everyone thinks I live alone, but I don't. My characters all live with me.

— Arundhati Roy

Good characters are rare. As long as I find one or two a year, I'm happy.

— Ludivine Sagnier

I enjoy working on new, different types of characters. Playing a range is what excites me.

— Juliet Landau

My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and…

— Kelly Reilly

A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the…

— Matthew Barney

'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

— Evangeline Lilly

The great thing about 'X-Men' is that it takes characters that are quite firmly established in the comics and puts them in…

— Josh Helman

I am not as confident as the characters I play. I am a bit aloof. I am uncomfortable in social situations.

— Anushka Sharma

The movies and TV shows I like to watch tend to put their characters in situations where they have to dig deeper.

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

While working in a group is great, on-set especially, it means you just don't get to see the characters one-on-one.

— Alycia Debnam-Carey

Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.

— Noel Fisher

Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art…

— Yaya Han

Dani's family are great, and I'm really lucky to have them as in-laws. But it's definitely not all plain sailing. They are…

— Kevin Jonas

There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out,…

— Natalie Zea

I am one Dana when I am talking to my daughter, another when I am talking to the IRS, and another still…

— Dana Spiotta

People like casting me as these characters who definitely have an edge to them, but I don't really think 'bad boy' is…

— Blair Redford

I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I…

— Pete Postlethwaite

I go back to family: 'Ice Age' was about disparate characters rejected by their own kind. They come together to save the…

— Chris Meledandri

I feel like the Eternals, each of them is a piece of the puzzle. They're part of the bigger picture. I think…

— Lauren Ridloff

Kubrick has a divining rod for the concealed, alienating secrets of characters.

— Bennett Miller

“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.”

— Amit Kalantri

“I write to keep the characters in my head from driving me crazy.”

— A.A. Cheshire

I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.

— Ian Mckellen

My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.

— Florence Pugh

All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots.

— Margaret Weis

These people I play are not usually wish-fulfillment characters.

— Timothy Spall

“During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.”

— Amit Kalantri

After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.

— Claire Tomalin

I'm drawn to interesting female characters and good storylines.

— Diana Silvers

In most scripts, one or two characters have a lot of colors.

— Joel Kinnaman

“Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.”

— Brian A. McBride

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Great characters are consciously or subconsciously at war with themselves.”

— John Yorke

“Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.”

— Amit Kalantri

The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

— Mark Haddon