Characters Quotes · Page 59

Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.

— Jim Rash

I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.

— Giancarlo Esposito

For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've…

— Maika Monroe

I don't want to play high schoolers anymore. I guess I don't feel that way. I just want to play characters who…

— Nat Wolff

One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.

— Andrea Hirata

I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.

— Joanne Kelly

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to…

— Eva Amurri

I don't like when people relying on me in any kind of business way. I'm just a writer. I'm just noodling around…

— Matt Kindt

'Twisted' is similar to 'Pretty Little Liars' in that it's about trying to find out who did it, but it's more about…

— Avan Jogia

I think I'm a part of all the characters I play, definitely at different times in my life. In real life, I'm…

— Sprague Grayden

With every episodic, there's a learning curve where writers try to find the voice of the characters by way of the actors.…

— Sasha Roiz

There are too many positive and goody male characters on TV, and they work, so its good for them. I feel each…

— Ashish Sharma

I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more…

— Joanna Trollope

I have always loved contemporary dance, but it has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But choreography is very…

— Michael Leunig

'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in…

— Edmund White

When you're in L.A., and you're making movies and that kind of stuff, you don't really get a sense sometimes, I think,…

— Kevin Heffernan

I think I've been good at getting into lonely and troubled characters because, not to brag, but I'm the complete opposite in…

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.

— Charlotte Riley

In Garden Party or 40 Days and 40 Nights, I played characters who people dont necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them.

— Vinessa Shaw

In Bengali films, I played my version of glamorous, where I played a wide-ranging characters.

— Riya Sen

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.

— John Cazale

'Downton Abbey' is one of my favourite shows ever - it's just beautifully filmed, and the stories and characters are so wonderful.

— Amanda Donohoe

Befikre' is not just about two characters. There is another very prominent third character, and that is Paris.

— Vaani Kapoor

At the end of the day, I write characters that I want to play, because I just think, 'Hey, maybe one day…

— Diana Silvers

Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing…

— Harlan Coben

There were so few Asians on-screen when I grew up, and the ones who were on-screen weren't given complex characters to play.

— Constance Wu

I tend to use a lot of movement in both camera and characters, and I also tend to give characters a lot…

— Kari Skogland

People relate to my characters and see me in a different way. They identify with me and remember the nuances of my…

— Kartik Aaryan

What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on…

— Freddie Stroma

You kind of worry for the characters in a way that you don't normally in sci-fi, because sci-fi tends to be about…

— Mark Millar

To this day, that's what I love the most: finding and playing characters who are out of my experience.

— David Morse

I actually see myself in all my characters. In order to imagine what it feels like to be another person I have…

— Elizabeth Strout

I find it very funny as well as touching that people associate me with these characters I play and form a connect…

— Pankaj Tripathi

Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood.

— Eric Braeden

I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but…

— Kathy Baker

The first script I got was Narc and I really responded to it; it reminded me of a '70s type movie, I…

— Ray Liotta

I believe people leave a theater bonding with characters. Story is the vessel that carries character. Comedy is a very important component…

— Chris Meledandri

You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.

— Samantha Morton

The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters.

— Terry Pratchett

It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences,…

— Brenda Blethyn