Characters Quotes · Page 58

I can't bear shopping. I can choose clothes for my characters, but not for myself. I've got no dress sense. Or I've…

— Richard Armitage

At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work.

— Hiro Murai

If you can't laugh at your own characters, or shed a tear for them, or even get angry at one of them,…

— Johanna Lindsey

Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to…

— Douglas Coupland

I always respond to characters who have depth. I'm always interested in those people. They're the ones who surprise you.

— Miriam Shor

I think the thing I took most from game playing was just getting in the characters head. I took it really seriously.…

— Drew Goddard

We're not the characters that we portray online, and even if we are, we're a 10-time version of ourselves. That's still not…

— Rhea Ripley

There's so many characters they [studios] are not letting me play. And I thought, "Why don't you just go produce it yourself?".

— George Hamilton

Going into hospitals and being able to meet kids that are in similar situations to those that the characters are facing in…

— Nolan Sotillo

On the surface, it's really easy to dismiss certain characters, but sometimes you find that the most interesting parts are disappointingly shallow.…

— Jessica Brown Findlay

You know, I really enjoy longevity. I see actors in their forties and they just turn out these really fabulous roles and…

— Kelly Reilly

Somehow we allow, if a character goes to the dark side, if we're hooked into that character - I'm obsessed with Peaky…

— Lauren Shuler Donner

I enjoy playing a quintessential antihero. There's something therapeutic about playing such characters. I know it sounds corny but I feel like…

— Vin Diesel

One of the reasons I love acting is because I'm so interested in other people's lives, and I often incorporate things I…

— Jason Alexander

I can't single out one of my books or characters as a favorite. In the same way that I don't have a…

— Lloyd Alexander

I watched 'Iron Man 3' the other night, and my chin was on the floor. 'Vikingdom' is a different type of movie,…

— Craig Fairbrass

I feel that in horror movies, especially, if you don't care about the characters, you've lost the audience. No one cares, and…

— Drew Goddard

Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant…

— Khaled Hosseini

There are so few shows that are willing to take risks with their characters in the way that 'Homeland' does. And yet,…

— Raza Jaffrey

Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an…

— Sylvester Stallone

A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

— Jack Kirby

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the…

— Paul Auster

I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed.

— David Nevins

What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of…

— Mike Birbiglia

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

— Jodi Picoult

“As long as there have been stories, there have been characters that refuse to stick to the outline.”

— Suzanne Selfors

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but…

— Katherine Paterson

The way glass can be molded or blown or cut into any kind of shape made me think about how we as…

— Lisa Kleypas

I loved Gwyneth Paltrow in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' and Reese Witherspoon in 'Election.' I love quirky films and characters like that.

— Phoebe Tonkin

I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

As an actor, my job is not to always play characters who make everybody happy. That's not interesting.

— Anna Gunn

I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had.

— Aziz Ansari

I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even…

— Richard Masur

My job is always going to change; the characters that I'm playing are always going to change. I look forward to playing…

— Milo Ventimiglia

I don't know what's wrong with me - I don't know why I only get picked to play strange characters!

— Olly Alexander

That's just what 'The 100' does. They like to put their characters in a position where no decision is the right one,…

— Bob Morley

“History is like a story with great characters, fantastic storylines, and wonderful settings. ~ Chip Lagerbom, 2011”

— Dave Webb

Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was…

— D. B. Weiss

I love villainous characters; they are so exciting to play. They are so different and challenging.

— Vivek Oberoi

“For few matters you need to be solo, for some matters you need soul mate and for many matters you need society,”

— Amit Kalantri