Characters Quotes · Page 44

I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.

— Katee Sackhoff

Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image.

— Scott Westerfeld

To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.

— Rafael Yglesias

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

— David Walton

As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually…

— Michael Sheen

I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and…

— Elizabeth George

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

Aquaman has the ability to be a huge character, and I think we really brought him to a new level in comic…

— Geoff Johns

All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't…

— Park Chan-wook

'The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears' is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and…

— Dinaw Mengestu

I approach film no differently than I approach a role. I want to make sure the movie is right, the characters are…

— Larenz Tate

I have a lot of real life experience that I can draw on. And I think that shows in the characters that…

— Mark Wahlberg

While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters…

— Claire Cameron

“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. that is why I am equally fond of them all and equally…

— Milan Kundera

The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures…

— J. G. Ballard

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

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

— Andrew Haigh

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

— Jim Rash

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

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

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

— Chadwick Boseman

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

— Laurie Graham

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

— Robert Rodriguez

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

I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.

— Zach Woods

There are some similarities, I think, with all the characters I play. I'm not a guy who sees the desire to transform…

— Jake Johnson

All my characters are quite relatable, as they are flawed, true, and honest. All of us are flawed; nobody is pure and…

— Vikrant Massey

“...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories…

— John Geddes

The characters I've played have been mostly violent, and I'm so far from being violent or aggressive. I spend a lot of…

— Tom Hardy

I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved…

— Marti Noxon

Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by…

— John Lasseter

I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul.…

— Kate Braverman

Women remain dramatically under-represented as characters in film when compared to their representation in the U.S. population.

— Sharon Lawrence