Characters Quotes · Page 42

The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters…

— Joel Kinnaman

I don't try to intellectualize characters too much. But I always think of the audience. I always make sure that my characters…

— Paula Patton

I am attracted to these outsider characters who just don't belong anywhere, and who are operating in worlds they sort of don't…

— Bennett Miller

In the prequel we're going to tell about the characters before Left Behind, and the book would end with the rapture instead…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

I've had a lot of characters and personalities, accents and different aspects from all the walks of my life.

— Princess Nokia

I like coming up with new characters. Whether it's revamping an old character no one likes or just coming up with brand-new…

— Joe Madureira

Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between…

— Yael Stone

Without having an emotional connection or some relatability to the characters, there's really nothing to root for, in some respect.

— David Nutter

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got…

— Joel Edgerton

I need to make the characters that I play in movies more accessible to audiences, more real. As an actor, you're always…

— Shu Qi

It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't…

— Cameron Crowe

I make no secret of the fact that writing She-Hulk can serve as an opportunity for me to sneak in some really…

— Charles Soule

I hate shows, personally, where people stand around tossing stuff at each other, and any character can say any line, because you…

— Bill Lawrence

There are characters that have made me uncomfortable. I did a film called 'Rob Roy,' and I played Killearn, who was this…

— Brian Cox

I believe that every character I create is in their own film, that happens to overlap with the main film. There are…

— Ana Lily Amirpour

As a kid, I just loved cartoons. And as the credits went by, I'd study those names and then try to figure…

— Jim Cummings

When you have a set of characters, you have to fall in love with them and care about them as each individual…

— Tina Fey

For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

I always think that the most interesting characters are those that are trying to cover something or those that have some sense…

— Emily Blunt

I don't find the characters I've played funny. The characters are actually taking their situations very seriously.

— Paul Rudd

With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well.…

— Dwayne Johnson

I have played both serious as well as lighter characters, also, and have been satisfied with both types.

— Barun Sobti

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

— Aaron Stanford

I like characters where there's something going on and something to make him real. If you find out what somebody cares about,…

— William Fichtner

“Sometimes we're so wrapped up in our own story that we don't see how we're supporting characters in someone else's.”

— Nathan Hill, The Nix

My characters have never waged a war against any gender. They are all about friendship and being loyal to your friends.

— Kartik Aaryan

“The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.”

— Amit Kalantri

The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.

— Zara Phillips

Four directors through their own interpretation created four different characters. And I had to play them in a fairly short period of…

— IU

I've played a lot of these characters that aren't particularly pleasant and pretty powerful, bad people, and one thing I've discovered is…

— Richard Brake

If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you…

— Douglas Coupland

My films are very rooted in specific people's point of view. Some film-makers give a more global point of view, like God…

— Doug Liman

If I just sit here, what am I going to do? I don't have a trade. I don't teach or anything. I…

— Elmore Leonard

“Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I'm drawn towards people who have a little pathos and a little dark side, and I feel the same towards fictional characters.

— Lisa Hanawalt

The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because…

— Clive Owen

“If [the characters] grow a lot, they begin to influence the course of the story instead of the other way around.”

— Stephen King

I've always maintained that all characters and all personalities are in all of us. The whole thing is available. You're not this…

— Richard Gere

Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort…

— Brent Weeks

I remember the guest stars who came, they were always trying to find a new plot for their characters because they wanted…

— Caroline Dhavernas