Characters Quotes · Page 55

The real issue lies in the North beyond the Wall. Stannis becomes one of the few characters fully to understand that, which…

— George R. R. Martin

I don't really like simple characters too much; it's too easy. I like a challenge, and I like characters you connect with…

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

I usually play characters that are a lot different than me. I mean, I'm never in a fight in a movie and…

— Matt Damon

Walt Disney grew up in Marceline, but almost every child has grown up with his beloved characters.

— Sam Graves

I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of…

— Katey Sagal

I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the…

— Elizabeth Berg

I always find that really interesting, you know, when I get to see characters that I love in TV and film and…

— Jesse Williams

You always miss them [characters you've played] once you've walked away, but part of them always stays with you too.

— Johnny Depp

Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most of the time... well, I don't.…

— Hans Matheson

It's not like I don't want to play the guy next door. But sometimes they're not the best written or the most…

— Kim Coates

They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because…

— Guy Ritchie

It's seldom that you find great moments in television. Usually you remember - in 'Breaking Bad' or any of these other great…

— Alfonso Cuaron

I think it's a wonderful thing to have African-American characters. Look at life. It's not a white world or a black world;…

— Darius McCrary

I do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does…

— Edward Rutherfurd

Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and…

— Peter Cushing

Any time you read a book and get attached to the characters, to me it's always a shock when it goes from…

— Suzanne Collins

I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the…

— Faran Tahir

Drama comes from characters changing. If characters stay the same and nothing changes, there's really nothing to look at.

— Cory Barlog

Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them.

— Janet Evanovich

One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.

— Andre Maurois

If my characters travel somewhere, I generally write about a place I know to give the scenes more authenticity.

— Sara Shepard

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most…

— Jim Henson

If I ever got to do television, I would be interested in doing different kinds of characters and stories, and television doesn't…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

The beauty of the characters on 'Justified' is that all the human beings that are written are all flawed. Even with the…

— Mykelti Williamson

When I'm working on my characters, that's something I pay a lot of attention to: how their body works, how they move,…

— Astrid Berges-Frisbey

I don't think anyone's interested particularly in watching stuff that's just about two-dimensional characters anymore.

— Lesley Sharp

“Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

— John Patrick Shanley

Be it in Malayalam or Tamil, I got to play characters who had plenty to do in the storyline and not just…

— Amala Paul

I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I…

— Hugh Dancy

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain…

— Angelina Jolie

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

— Matthew Nable

I've always wanted to explore characters of all races, all genders, all ages. It just seems to me to be a natural…

— Alan Moore

I like down-to-Earth characters, but I also like being able to get outside my box of knowledge.

— Britt Robertson

The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over…

— Sally Field

I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that…

— Quentin Tarantino

My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

To me, beauty is a commodity and that's the way it's treated in my books. It has power, and though that power…

— Leigh Bardugo

I love great writing. I like interesting characters. I like to work with people who push me to be better, to elevate…

— Julie Ann Emery

I guess, what I'm saying is that when I've been this surprised by my own characters and world, all bets are off.

— Laurell K. Hamilton