Characters Quotes · Page 24

A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.

— Irvine Welsh

I tend to play more true-to-life characters in real situations.

— Mekhi Phifer

“No tricks, no tools, but talent makes a task truly top class.”

— Amit Kalantri

The most fun characters to work with are characters that are complicated.

— Drew Goddard

I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.

— Taron Egerton

'The Clone Wars' was rooted in George Lucas and his characters.

— Dave Filoni

I'm as interested in exceptional characters as men are.

— Patty Jenkins

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

— Paul Haggis

I love doing heightened reality stuff, and having fun with the characters I play, especially in a kind of darker way, which…

— Andrew-Lee Potts

The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters.

— Jessie Mueller

When you are working on a movie, you have to ensure that the journey of characters ends in two hours.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.

— Junot Diaz

I like to have my characters talking in an up-to-date way, and I like their essentially modern self-awareness, which means we can…

— Jonathan Stroud

There are so many romantic comedies made, but very few dramas or love stories. And with a love story, you have to…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters…

— Kapil Sharma

The characters I've played that people have noticed included a cross-dresser and a transsexual.

— Katherine Moennig

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two…

— Idris Elba

My dad had such a cool job. When you're a voiceover actor, it's a whole different skill - you're bringing these huge,…

— Ashley Bell

Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to…

— Harlan Coben

With a pilot, there's a lot of information that gets packed into 46 minutes or whatever it is. Usually what happens is…

— Eric Dane

Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of…

— Amy Bloom

'The Walking Dead' never wants you to get too comfortable with characters and cast members. I think about the time you feel…

— Lew Temple

Some people tell me they would be afraid of my characters, but I tell those people [that] they meet these characters all…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

It doesn't matter whether characters are real people or not; if they're not vivid on the page, then the reader doesn't care…

— Salman Rushdie

I've done a lot of different characters, but people never recognize me. I'm not joking.

— James Tupper

When you see a band, you want to see characters.

— Zacky Vengeance

It's always quintessential to create complexities in characters.

— Myha'la

I've been really picky about the sort of characters that I want to represent.

— Bria Vinaite

“Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for.”

— Amit Kalantri

Everybody is an actor, whether you play the main lead or one of the supporting characters.

— Deepti Naval

Of all the 'Black-ish' characters, Zoey is most like my daughter, who goes to U.S.C.

— Kenya Barris

My characters are really confident but really nervous.

— Megan Stalter

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

— Tcheky Karyo

I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.

— Matt Lauria

If you care about [the characters] as if they were real, that always helps.

— Tina Fey

I tend to go for these half-little-boy characters.

— Christine McVie

Well, I like characters, players with personality, I don't like flat people.

— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

I'm much more low-key than the characters I've played.

— Matt LeBlanc

The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird.

— Julie Walters

I'm very attracted to characters who don't necessarily make it easy to be loved.

— Charlize Theron