Characters Quotes · Page 29

I continue to be known as a guy that plays really complex, three-dimensional characters.

— Robert Knepper

I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking.

— Joan Didion

I am not taking home any of the characters I play on screen.

— Roop Durgapal

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

— Joel Kinnaman

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

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

— Brian A. McBride

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

— Amit Kalantri

I think I've proven with my career that I can play a wide variety of characters. Yet, I still get typecast as…

— Judah Friedlander

And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.

— Graham Brown

Some of the most interesting characters in literature and in movies and TV have been ones that you can't quite figure out…

— Michael McKean

Personally, I am thrilled that I can now let my characters clasp a rosary, mention confession or invoke the intercession of a…

— Regina Doman

Well, it's probably not something I'm conscious of, but I do gravitate towards characters that are kind of like me.

— Will Sasso

I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a…

— John Crowley

I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my…

— Walter Kirn

When I write, I picture the characters a certain way in my head, and they're not like any actor or actress. It's…

— Emily Giffin

I didn't want to take the DC universe, put it in a box, shake the box and pour it out. I wanted…

— Geoff Johns

For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm…

— Ruth Wilson

When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible…

— Laura Harring

I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk.…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

One of the joys of this show [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] is that each of those characters could be starring in…

— Samuel Barnett

I like looking at the characters. Seeing them always brings up some voice or attitude. I am much more visual, and that…

— Frank Welker

If you can relate to what the character's going through, the story can be as ridiculous as possible, and people will relate…

— Drew Goddard

I have an idea for a story, and if the idea is going to work, then one of the characters steps forward,…

— Laurie Graham

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

— Mark Haddon

I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.

— Martin Freeman

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

— Ben Chaplin

“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Bennett Miller

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

— Donal Logue

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

— Timothy Spall

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

— Margaret Weis

My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.

— Florence Pugh

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

— A.A. Cheshire

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

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Ian Mckellen

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

— Diana Silvers