Characters Quotes · Page 41

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must…

— Anonymous

Now I'm president. I get to meet a lot of other company presidents. They're such weird people. I'm fascinated by them. I…

— Hidetaka Miyazaki

I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.

— Lisa Kudrow

The characters are complicated. The people you think are bad, may not be so bad, and the ones you think are good,…

— Neal Baer

“I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a…

— Chris Stocking

I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters…

— Kim Edwards

'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over…

— Taraji P. Henson

When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. I enjoy pushing…

— Dana Carvey

I like to play complex characters and the duality, and trying to reach for the light, it's more interesting really. I've gotten…

— Forest Whitaker

As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters.…

— James Badge Dale

I think if you're too embroiled in the need to relate too closely to the character, then you start to judge the…

— Cate Blanchett

To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all…

— Max von Sydow

I like acting. I really like acting. The career, it can keep you interested. With 'Entourage,' the characters are living a lifestyle…

— Debi Mazar

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're…

— Thomas Perry

I like playing strange characters. Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I…

— Colin Firth

Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than…

— Philipp Meyer

I like to make up my own lines and dress myself and act like myself and no other characters.

— Patti Harrison

'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' - every scene is from those characters' point of view. They're in literally every scene, very unusual in…

— Doug Liman

I sublimate different parts of my personality through my characters. Which is worrying, as some of them can be a bit nasty.…

— Joanne Harris

Superheroes are modern mythological characters, so you're going to make them look impossible. Even my Krypto The Superdog is the idealisation of…

— Jim Lee

I always tend to like the characters that I play. I'm convinced that I am this person and I'm OK with whatever…

— Mark Wahlberg

I'm such a fan of anime and manga to this day, but I never really like got to know all the characters…

— Lights

You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos.

— Deborah Moggach

I do tend to have characters that I guess are in some way loners or dealing with obstacles that they have to…

— Craig Gillespie

I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by…

— Isabel Allende

I've always been interesting in characters that challenge people and who are not always that easy to like.

— Julian McMahon

I have a penchant for playing characters that have been victimized repeatedly and still stood their ground and still remained unembittered.

— Drea De Matteo

I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters.

— Tim Blake Nelson

I'd like to think I'm not quite so pretentious as to think my characters go off and live their lives once I've…

— Jane Green

“Don't let your ego write checks your character can't cash. another from the world of tweets”

— Robin Glasser

'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.

— J. J. Abrams

I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a…

— Andy Daly

“This isn't the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer.”

— Ryan S. Fortney

My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

— Karin Slaughter

I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in…

— Elizabeth George

You always hope that people will fall in love with the characters you play, the way you do yourself.

— Jared Harris

I wind up playing these characters a lot: They have self-esteem issues, or they're going through a lot as a young adult.

— Barrett Wilbert Weed

In a film, there are too many characters. If the film is not a hit, then nobody really notices your work.

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

I look at characters to see if they have some contrasts to play with; I think that's always what I'm looking for…

— Joel Kinnaman