Characters Quotes · Page 53

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.

— Chuck Palahniuk

A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the…

— Matthew Barney

'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

— Evangeline Lilly

The great thing about 'X-Men' is that it takes characters that are quite firmly established in the comics and puts them in…

— Josh Helman

I am not as confident as the characters I play. I am a bit aloof. I am uncomfortable in social situations.

— Anushka Sharma

Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.

— Steve Earle

I don't discuss my own beliefs in public, but I will say the beliefs I've given my characters do not necessarily represent…

— Christopher Paolini

I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no…

— R. L. Stine

Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but…

— Carl Hiaasen

When we start shooting I don't have rehearsals with characters at all. So, rather than pulling them towards myself, I travel closer…

— Abbas Kiarostami

Inventing characters is extraordinary: proper authors say so often that characters 'just appear' and that does happen. These people keep leaping out…

— Sheila Hancock

I've learned a lot with every character, everything from being a cop, to a lawyer to a tattoo artist. And underneath that…

— Sarah Shahi

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at…

— Andy Serkis

I feel like my experience on 'Community' was that I saw just how important that first year is for a series. That…

— Jim Rash

'Benidorm' is such a great show. There's nothing else like it. You might think the characters are far-fetched, but then you get…

— Sheridan Smith

“Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the…

— Helen Dunmore

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the…

— Jonathan Miller

To get the hippie out of certain characters is probably the most difficult thing for me. I was not a hippie by…

— Melissa Leo

What's fun is that the characters in 'Broad City' are rushing and hustling, and our process reflects that.

— Ilana Glazer

Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and…

— Anne Lamott

I just always gravitate toward the kind of characters or people that maybe you don't want to talk to for a long…

— Kristen Wiig

The characters I like offer a room for imagination about their untold past and future, even when the given scripts don't explain…

— Lee Je-hoon

In 'Winnie the Pooh,' a lot of the characters have serious flaws: Pooh is sort of a food addict. Rabbit is OCD,…

— Robert Lopez

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

— Anthony Geary

I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while,…

— Meg Tilly

I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in…

— Eric Stoltz

I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to…

— Drew Goddard

Here, we have female directors and producers; in fact, one whole channel is run by a woman. Pakistani TV is progressive, and…

— Umera Ahmad

The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new…

— Jonathan Kellerman

“In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.”

— Amit Kalantri

I've been trying to make a difference as an actor. I want to play characters that move people, have them look at…

— Hill Harper

There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don't know any…

— David Levithan

My face lends itself to austere characters, and unless they're two-dimensional, I will do them. Any actor will tell you that an…

— Charles Dance

I like characters that are complex. I don't like people who are simple to play and are either black or white.

— Neeraj Kabi

I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think…

— Magda Apanowicz

I've never really played everyday people. I've played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to…

— Sandrine Bonnaire

I do build my own backstory as an actor. It's important to know where your characters have come from in order to…

— Sarah Gadon

“It is said that there is a part of us in our characters. But I also believe there is a part of…

— Lisa Wakely

I always think about Faulkner, and I would argue that there can be a difference between the way that characters express themselves…

— Jesmyn Ward

There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.

— Joel Edgerton