Characters Quotes · Page 48

I can find some part of me that relates to even the most evil characters. At least in my imagination.

— Richard Brake

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

— Julie Kagawa

We made a commitment to making diverse stories with diverse characters brought to life by diverse artists.

— Travis Knight

I've been really fortunate in the fact that I've gotten a chance to do a real wide range of all different kinds…

— Juliet Landau

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has…

— Crystal Chappell

Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities.

— Charlaine Harris

A lot of the characters I've played before are heroic or invincible in some ways and not tuned into fear and anxiety…

— Jason Statham

To the image of the characters, I do change my appearance. For example, I gain weight and I lose weight sometimes, and…

— Min-sik Choi

There's not one thing that inspires me the most. Me and my friends joke around with each other and hang out so…

— Adam DeVine

Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love…

— Regina Brett

The characters I'm most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You don't see them regularly…

— Mary Doria Russell

You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of…

— Aaron Stanford

I was kind of a cross between Kristy and Mary Anne among 'The Baby-Sitters Club' characters. I was shy, but I was…

— Raina Telgemeier

Cliched characters are cliches because they're people being described by people who are on the outside. If you take two sentences from…

— Michael Cudlitz

In animation, you can throw away people's defense. You can go right to the center of things, right through inside someone's heart.…

— Timothy Dalton

Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.

— Edmund White

Sometimes your characters in films do things that you wouldn't do. You're not playing yourself all the time.

— Kristen Stewart

I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can…

— Ashwin Sanghi

As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.

— Elizabeth Berg

I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make everything - to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just…

— Timur Bekmambetov

To some degree, Hollywood doesn't know what to do with me because the characters I do are so different. But hopefully, that…

— Sharlto Copley

It's difficult because usually when they cast things, the main characters are Caucasian in absolutely almost every situation.

— Sandrine Holt

The scene is never really about moving the story forward on 'Breaking Bad.' That's the functional veneer of the scene, but it's…

— George Mastras

I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all…

— Morgan Freeman

I always begin with a character or characters, and then try to think up as much action for them as possible.

— John Irving

Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.

— Alexander McCall Smith

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write,…

— Aaron Sorkin

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

— Margaret Atwood

There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to change. It's not a static story.…

— Carlton Cuse

What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.

— Adam Green

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.

— Alan Rickman

It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or…

— Madchen Amick

I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore…

— Sophie Kinsella

What I've learnt from 'Friends' is don't let the characters get together because then it won't be as good afterwards.

— Josh Widdicombe

I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.

— Ann Patchett

There's no particular role that comes to mind that I'd like to take on, but for me, it's about playing interesting characters…

— Michelle Dockery

I love characters that are awkward and flawed, I think we're all kind of like that no matter how together we tend…

— Erin Daniels

I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of…

— J. J. Abrams

The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men.

— Robert Webb