Characters Quotes · Page 4

We don't want to watch boring characters.

— Megalyn Echikunwoke

Star Trek characters never go shopping.

— Douglas Coupland

I aspire to play interesting characters.

— Arjun Kapoor

I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters.

— Ruth Wilson

I like taking up exceptional characters.

— Sudha Chandran

All my characters have been relatable.

— Kartik Aaryan

I don't exactly relate to grey characters.

— Kay Kay Menon

There's something about Southern characters.

— Sissy Spacek

If I was like some of the characters I played, I'd probably be dead by now.

— Jennifer Tilly

Sometimes I think that people's characters get forged, at least in part, from their names.

— Jeff Goldblum

You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.

— Ellen Pompeo

I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.

— Jonathan Demme

I like to write characters that feel like people that I would know.

— Anna Todd

“The characters and events in this book are fictitious.”

— Daniel Abraham

I don't do special effects. I do characters. I do creatures.

— Stan Winston

Look, I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters.

— Nicolas Cage

When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go…

— Hallie Ephron

I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.

— Garry Trudeau

Characters, like people, don't need to be right - only understood and, perhaps, accepted. We are all grey, lighter and darker, depending…

— Sobhita Dhulipala

If you look at my body of work, there's always a dark side to my characters. They've always got a skeleton in…

— Tony Scott

One of my favourite actresses is Kate Winslet. She plays strong female characters and seems like she has a strong political awareness.…

— Emily Perkins

Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Sometimes in Brazil, I work harder to make characters different and believable and to overcome the persona I have.

— Rodrigo Santoro

There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration... as if sanctification happens as…

— Tullian Tchividjian

However, for my characters to have depth, they have to be human and complex, have both qualities and flaws, do the right…

— Christine Leunens

In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look…

— Matthew Weiner

As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows…

— A. J. Bowen

I don't use recurring characters. I do get very interested my characters while I'm working with them, and I find the process…

— Jessica Abel

I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up…

— Akira Kurosawa

Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good—they are the heroes of their…

— Stephen King

The thing about this business is that you always end up finding these amazing stories and these amazing people who make amazing…

— Madhur Mittal

I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person.…

— Anonymous

I have a scenario but almost always it's entwined with at least one person to begin with. Then I sort of expand…

— Benjamin Percy

“[W]hen I put Jorge in the library I did not yet know he was the murderer. He acted on his own, so…

— Umberto Eco

“I used to send my characters into a fire that necessarily consumed them, but I have learned, a little, how to send…

— Kathe Koja

I've had to play characters who I absolutely disagree with, as far as their politics, as far as their religion, and their…

— Audra McDonald

“The 10 ever greatest misplacements in life: 1. Leadership without character. 2. Followership without servant-being. 3. Brotherhood without integrity. 4. Affluence without…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“It was not my intention - it never was - to invent a character who should speak for me, the author, in…

— Eudora Welty

“For Gone Girl, I knew Nick and Amy had to be very believable, so I made ipod playlists for them, and knew…

— Gillian Flynn

“Stephen King started to read comics first, I started to watch films and little reading books...Now everything has changed Stephen King reads…

— Deyth Banger