Characters Quotes · Page 36

I like characters that are fragile and a little bit on the edge .

— Zach Galifianakis

“Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.”

— Amit Kalantri

Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.

— Robert Boswell

Though I enjoy playing historical characters, it is very taxing.

— Puneet Issar

I identify in some measure with each of my characters.

— Amitava Kumar

“Men are funny characters, they must always have something to bemuse them.”

— Henrik Ibsen

There is so much room for gender-neutral characters.

— Ruth Bradley

For 'Game of Thrones,' I realized immediately that it was about the characters.

— Alex Graves

If you can't laugh at your own characters, or shed a tear for them, or even get angry at one of them,…

— Johanna Lindsey

The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses the line and the villain who sometimes…

— Geoff Johns

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their…

— Mary-Louise Parker

I just write characters, and somehow they happen to be a boy and a girl. When the story is put together, and…

— Imtiaz Ali

“Characters, for good or evil, are part of an author's family. Once we have let them out of our imaginations, they stay…

— Andrew Ferrell

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.

— Tony Curtis

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

— Matthew Nable

Every person has contributed to me as a human, but a lot of the characters I do are ones I created.

— Tracy Morgan

I wouldn't think of my characters' moralities at all. And I think I identify fully with every main character I've written about…

— Tao Lin

When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It…

— Kate Atkinson

I feel like a lot of girl characters in anything usually end up being either extremely tough or extremely ditzy. There's always…

— Pendleton Ward

I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in 'Dumbo's Circus.' I'm used to getting…

— Jim Cummings

“And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he were back…

— Franz Kafka

I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in…

— Kresley Cole

You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply…

— Walter Kirn

I don't play comedy as comedy. That would be the biggest trap. I think about the characters and their situations. Then you…

— Penelope Cruz

Many people are taking 2D games and making them into 3D games by recreating the characters in polygons. But the gameplay's still…

— Hideo Kojima

'Game of Thrones' is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense…

— Jim Rash

I think all of my male characters, I suppose, in all of my films, they're not necessarily the traditional version of masculinity.

— Andrew Haigh

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life,…

— Laurie Graham

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

— Chadwick Boseman

I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party…

— Dana Carvey

Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.

— Jodie Foster

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to…

— Conor Oberst

I don't tend to cast roles in my head because I spend so much time with these characters and the drawings that…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be…

— Robert Rodriguez

Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.

— Michael Zaslow

I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or…

— John Wells

I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.

— Catherine Mary Stewart

I am one of these characters who seems to thrive off a little bit of niggle, a little bit of pressure.

— Stuart Broad

Yes, I certainly look for strong characters - whether that means they're strong in their vulnerability or strong in the way they…

— Vicky McClure

With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people.

— David Walton