Characters Quotes · Page 45

I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.

— Bruce Campbell

I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it…

— Harland Williams

A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

— Anthony Browne

I like to take chances. The actors I admire are the ones who aren't afraid to make themselves nasty, bad or even…

— Matt Dillon

I'm personally not terribly interested in designing wholesome characters, so I don't have many variations to offer.

— Akira Toriyama

I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize Theron would make…

— Kathryn Lasky

It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.

— Rick Riordan

When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that…

— Isabel Allende

No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary…

— Elizabeth Bowen

My favorite part about working in theater is the rehearsal process. I absolutely love the rehearsal process. Working out the characters, figuring…

— Joseph Gatt

The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the…

— Tom Perrotta

I'm not interested in going to casting after casting, trying to get into that game. So there is a part of me…

— Sharlto Copley

I think if you play characters, it's very important not to ever tag them with any sort of disorder, or diagnose them,…

— Cillian Murphy

Interesting characters are troubled characters. The only problem I've had in my business is very few people - unfortunately, very vocal -…

— Val Kilmer

Characters in Hollywood movies encounter a lot of car chases. Characters in novels rarely wash their hands or do their laundry. And…

— Nomy Arpaly

I do not choose characters because I think, 'Wow, that woman is so strong.' I chose these characters with utmost conviction because…

— Anushka Sharma

I think everybody likes to play the villain. Theyre always much more interesting characters.

— Maria Doyle Kennedy

Hollywood is lacking realness in their female characters. I don't think I'm the only one who thinks that and wants to change…

— Nicole Holofcener

It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy…

— Siri Hustvedt

That's what attracts me to the kind of characters I try and write - that they're not cut and dried.

— Taika Waititi

I never play characters that are like me because I'm a boring person. I wouldn't want to see me in a movie.

— Jennifer Lawrence

I don't want to write lines where characters tell me exactly how they feel; I want to see people talk about anything…

— Tobias Lindholm

As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and…

— Orlando Bloom

I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists…

— Laurie Graham

I love everything. I love being the empathetic characters. I love being the villains. I think it's like when we're kids, we…

— Kathy Bates

Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and…

— Colleen Atwood

Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very…

— Burt Ward

I pretty much always choose characters. That's what I do. That's what I look for. I look for dynamics in a script…

— Grant Bowler

So many fantastic male characters are brooding, angry, and not nice; that doesn't happen as much with women.

— Georgina Campbell

We're characters not of this world, so our knowledge about stuff, that other character's don't have, is quite fun.

— Tom Ellis

I love bridge-and-tunnel characters. In some respects, they have a chip on their shoulders, but they're proud of where they're from. They're…

— Max Joseph

When I'm watching TV, I'm always drawn to those female characters who are doing something that I would want to do.

— Gina Holden

His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

After the complex characters in 'Mayaanadhi' and 'Varathan,' my characters in 'Vijay Superum Pournamiyum' and 'Argentina Fans Kaattoorkkadavu' were bubbly ones.

— Aishwarya Lekshmi

You want somebody who's capable of being diverse in the characters they play, and you want a big name that's going to…

— Dana Brunetti

Since I came at 'Godot' from a God-based frame of mind, it didn't strike me as absurdist. It struck me as characters…

— Michael Schultz

I hope to do multiple characters throughout my life that are separate from me. I think it's a cop-out if you play…

— Kat Graham

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters…

— Kari Matchett

Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold.

— Audrey Meadows

Sometimes I like to think that characters you play are all the other people you could've been in a lifetime.

— Mia Maestro