Characters Quotes · Page 47

My best writing has to do with an internal process that I'm working out unconsciously and put into my characters.

— Lyle Kessler

I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a…

— Esai Morales

Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.

— David Fincher

Caliban is one of the most difficult characters to play because there's not a lot of history there. It's sort of a…

— Ron Cephas Jones

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

People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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

— Caroline Dhavernas

I like characters with problems. I like to understand them... To play alcoholics, fetishists, strange girls, you have to dig deep within…

— Marie Trintignant

I personally kind of yearn to play characters who are complex and who strike a truthful chord in me and who are…

— Toni Collette

I want to play some really good, interesting, crazy characters. I want to take some chances. I want to take risks. I…

— Andie MacDowell

This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how…

— Gail Honeyman

My Mom and Dad did it pretty good, so I know it can work. The foremost thing I would say about working…

— Nick Cassavetes

I've played historical characters before, and I think the trap of all of them is if you try to do an impression.…

— Tim Matheson

In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing. It makes sense.…

— Kevin Smith

You know a lot of times wrestlers get too full of themselves. They can't separate themselves from the characters. They get used…

— Hulk Hogan

In terms of the characters, I definitely do look for somebody that I think people can learn from and I can learn…

— Emmy Rossum

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

You can't rewrite the history books; you can't eliminate the impact of my work and my characters.

— Rob Liefeld

I have a lot of people in my life who are truly ridiculous characters, and they're very, very funny people, but they…

— Emile Hirsch

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

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

“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

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

Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish…

— Jason Isaacs

I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability. I don't know why. I know I can play these roles,…

— Kari Matchett

“Very often the characters people respond best to have little parts of reality they can relate to.”

— Sara Sheridan

My characters are like my children in a way. I create them, and then I worry about them forevermore.

— Elizabeth Berg

I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

— Donnie Wahlberg

Who doesn't want to draw Batman or Superman? Everyone would like to be able to draw them. I've been really lucky when…

— Lee Bermejo

There's a little bit of me in all of the characters I've played. I've never really had the opportunity to play something…

— Katee Sackhoff

I like characters who are larger-than-life, whether life-loving women or the artist or guru who grabs everything. But I don't live among…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what…

— Dan DeCarlo

It's cruel to compare two actors working with two different filmmakers on two different characters.

— Sushant Singh Rajput

It's funny, people talk about the characters they play and who do you sort of see yourself as or which ones maybe…

— Gabriel Mann

I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in…

— Luke Mably

I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the…

— Gregg Sulkin

I have always been a fan of Jim Henson, and I love his Creature Shop creations, the skill of the puppets and…

— Honeysuckle Weeks