Characters Quotes · Page 32

As children, we did not have toys. We invented characters and animals; we invented stories.

— Rithy Panh

I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.

— Dana Ashbrook

It always comes down to script and characters.

— Tom Bateman

Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.

— Terry Goodkind

I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.

— Antonio Banderas

I do like to play the darker characters; I don't really know why.

— Zuleikha Robinson

What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.

— Tony Scott

Now I am an old hag, I get to play much more interesting characters.

— Joan Greenwood

Shows like 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends,' they have, like, one or two damn characters throughout the whole series that are minorities.

— Esai Morales

I've been really lucky to play sort of a diverse array of characters over my relatively short career, although it feels really…

— Allison Scagliotti

I never judge the characters I'm asked to play, and I don't need to feel that they are a part of me.

— Kim Bodnia

I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters.

— Maria Doyle Kennedy

Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a…

— Peter Dinklage

The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form... is to know…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters.

— Miriam Toews

I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play.

— Steve Buscemi

I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I'm more influenced by characters than standups. I love strong, comic women because it's so hard, and I have so much respect…

— Amy Hoggart

“Who loses hope first? And who never gives up? Because it’s not the supernatural abilities that set mythical characters apart. It’s the…

— Brodi Ashton

Obviously, a lot of TV shows are based on chronological episode viewing, and the stories are contingent upon watching it in order.…

— Cary Fukunaga

I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to…

— Adam Sandler

My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a year. Then, when…

— Cynthia Voigt

I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating…

— Robert Boswell

The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It's such a pleasure to see how they've…

— Suzanne Collins

“I love fictional characters...they can't break your heart.”

— Anonymous

I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

— Edward Norton

I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

— Jeffrey Combs

“[the writer] must copy, with his finite mind, the process of the infinite 'I AM.”

— John Gardner

Like anything, you've gotta find the humanity in the characters.

— Holliday Grainger

I enjoy bringing humanity to complex characters.

— Isaiah Washington

I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

— Zoe Lister-Jones

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

— Orhan Pamuk

I love characters who are really dedicated to a really bad plan.

— Marti Noxon

I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.

— David Fincher

You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.

— Joanna Trollope

Characters I create are just mixtures of the people I know.

— Taika Waititi

Aquaman is one of the greatest characters at DC Comics and one of my favorites.

— Geoff Johns

“It's time to shop high heels if your fiance kisses you on the forehead.”

— Amit Kalantri

I love creating new characters that are whatever they are.

— Megan Mullally

I want to be remembered by the characters I do.

— Aishwarya Lekshmi