Characters Quotes · Page 46

“Fictional characters soon take on a life of their own. They run with the bit between their teeth.”

— Jay Parini

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

— Alexia Fast

I will play the characters with last names like Sanchez and Gonzalez until the day I die, but I also want to…

— Gina Rodriguez

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have…

— Aubrey Plaza

I want to try everything I can; I want to push my boundaries and experiment with characters and genres that I have…

— Georgia Groome

I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done.

— Mark Harmon

That's just part of being in 'X-Men.' There's, like, 20 main characters, and 15 of them are household names, so obviously you're…

— Aaron Stanford

Sometimes I'll go on a Twitter spree and reply as much as I can. Talking to my fans is so much fun…

— Jordin Sparks

I hadn't really thought about this until 'The Lake of Dreams,' but I've set all my stories in places that are familiar…

— Kim Edwards

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places.…

— Jonathan Jackson

As far as characters in fiction that I really admire - it's pretty strong to say you would wish that you had…

— Michael Connelly

It's very important that all the supporting characters feel like they've existed in the world, that they've had a history, and they'll…

— Andrew Haigh

“As far as my characters doing what I want them to, I'm afraid I'm not a real writer like the rest of…

— Jessie Chandler

I like to create characters that are larger than life. But it's funny because I do a lot of bad guys, and…

— Peter Stormare

“Not so with our characters. They have no metaphysics, no order, no law. They are miserable and they don’t know why. They…

— Eugène Ionesco

I don't have a preference for bad people, no. I have an interest in playing a broad range of characters. Obviously, I'm…

— Leonard Nimoy

I dont really like simple characters too much; its too easy. I like a challenge, and I like characters you connect with…

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

Sometimes you meet characters at certain points in your life and have a connection with them.

— Jessie Buckley

I think characters are going to be, if not a reflection of the author, at least some refraction of some part of…

— Diana Gabaldon

I would love to be able to play some characters on television that are similar to some of the indie film roles…

— Courtney Ford

You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context…

— Randy Couture

I love to laugh and dance. That's kind of my nature, though I end up always playing these angry, depressing characters.

— Brendan Sexton III

It's kind of fun when you're playing characters that aren't quite on the up and up and people still like you.

— Kevin Nealon

The most natural thing for us is drawing. The characters [in Persepolis] are hand drawn. We're not technical people. We don't know…

— Marjane Satrapi

I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'

— Lorrie Moore

I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too,…

— Conor McPherson

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is…

— Joel Coen

Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean…

— Park Bo-gum

I've had the opportunity to do a wide range of stuff, a lot of different characters and they've all had their own…

— Tony Hale

You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.

— Candace Bushnell

“What happens in my next chapter depends on whether I wake up feeling creative or murderous.”

— Joyce Rachelle

You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story -…

— Jill McCorkle

“Whereas Mirabelle is tall, thin and sad, Vesta is physically and emotionally her opposite.”

— Sara Sheridan

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I…

— Spike Jonze

Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved…

— Thorne Smith

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that…

— Ben Whishaw

We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together.

— Anonymous

There are a lot of actresses out there who are the girl next door. I relate more to characters who have an…

— Eliza Dushku

I can't be an arm candy to the hero. I need to play characters that have layers, that people can relate to.

— Shweta Tripathi

One year, my family and I dressed up in the theme of 'Wizard of Oz' for Halloween. We all went as the…

— Luke Benward