Characters Quotes · Page 3

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

— Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes my characters are not myself.

— Umberto Eco

Few characters in history are indispensable.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

I really believe in the characters I play.

— Minnie Driver

I always liked strange characters.

— Tim Burton

My characters hope for better lives.

— Octavia E. Butler

I don't like drawing characters facing right.

— Stephan Pastis

“Me to characters: talk to me people.”

— Buffy Andrews

Multiple characters make it more difficult to showcase each character.

— David Finch

“Every writer is the amanuensis to their characters”

— Lucy Coats

All my main characters have got bits of me, bits of my family, bits of my friends.

— Lisa Jewell

I love playing characters that are unrecognizable.

— Khandi Alexander

Nicole Garcia has always portrayed characters in a very human and complex way.

— Stacy Martin

I just love playing characters that are a long way away from me.

— Dorothy Atkinson

I like to play characters who are flawed - the big man brought down.

— Lenny Henry

“Let your characters lead when you're dancing together.”

— Caron Kamps Widden

If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen…

— Morris Gleitzman

We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's…

— Chris Meledandri

My favorite was 'The Secret Garden'. I loved it, and I think it's had a big influence on all of my characters.…

— Judith Viorst

I like playing these characters who are just on the edge of ridiculous but always grounded in reality. I would never want…

— Kaitlin Olson

I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more…

— Alison Bechdel

I think I was always interested in darker characters just because there was a lot more to do.

— Brady Corbet

Usually, characters that are doing something nefarious have some extra layers to them. The general rule is bad people don't necessarily think…

— Jason Alexander

“And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends.”

— Fish

Joker' is, of course, a character of my generation grew up with, and it's a character you know really well and have…

— Hildur Gudnadottir

For [people] to be like "So what it's like dealing with female characters who are completely disgusting?" I don't think they are…

— Leslye Headland

I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et…

— Helen Oyeyemi

Most of the dialogue in 'Speed' is mine, and a bunch of the characters. That was actually pretty much a good experience.…

— Joss Whedon

The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't…

— Patrick Rothfuss

From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that…

— Felicity Kendal

Bret Easton Ellis is a social satirist; I consider myself aligned with how he does things. Bret doesn't write about that which…

— Roger Avary

I would say of characters I've created, the one I've felt the most connected to emotionally was Adam Austin from 'The Prophet.'…

— Michael Koryta

“My characters push the limits of the envelope when it comes to passion, love, and lust. They can be as elegant and…

— Neale Sourna

I don't know who they are[my characters] . They're entirely invented characters. Maybe that's how I've been able to write so many…

— T.C. Boyle

“A great number of elements in the characters’ lives, both psychic and factual, are not communicated to us. […] These characters, I…

— Pierre Bayard

I think people are a mixture of everything. I like desperate characters because they do things that most of us normally wouldn't…

— Richard Shepard

“I was afraid of anyone in a costume. A trip to see Santa might as well have been a trip to sit…

— Paul Feig

There probably aren't a lot of new superheroes around, so whenever one appears, it makes a bit of noise. Really, most of…

— Mark Millar

“There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in. To keep these characters static - like Superman…

— Brian Azzarello