The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques. — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
All of the 'X-Men' characters really intrigue me. Wolverine is my favorite character. — Juliana Harkavy Copy Share Image
It's doesn't matter how different your characters are. Just find a common goal! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can. — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I'm a great planner, so before I ever write chapter 1, I work out what happens in every chapter and who the… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
For me, playing characters is always about an energy and feeling it in your body. That's when I know that the character… — Sian Clifford Copy Share Image
We see the worst versions of ourselves - things we did or could have done - in the characters who inspire us. — Dave McCary Copy Share Image
I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very… — Laura Innes Copy Share Image
I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do,… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you do a part, the wall between you and the characters can be very porous. You can sort of move… — Kyra Sedgwick Copy Share Image
People have to respond to the characters and respond to the situations that they're in. That said, it still has to be… — Adam Rayner Copy Share Image
I like writing characters that seem different from one another. So if you were to hypothetically look at a bunch of lines… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It… — Aidan Gillen Copy Share Image
I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I wanted to live the life my characters were living, so I rented a yacht and sailed from Naples to Capri before… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
There is an element of performance to leadership, because youre on public display, and I suppose I must be attracted to that.… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
“Brian's eyeborw shot up. "Don't m ind me for asking silly questions, Anna, but aren't you the one who determines Bux's fate?"… — Judy Kouzel Copy Share Image
“A mistake is the name we give to any action in which we perceive a difference between what we intended and what… — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
“French Louis Seymour of the West Canada Creek, who knew how to survive all alone in a treacherous wilderness, and Mr. Alfred… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
I have always liked kind of outsider characters. In the movies I grew up liking, you had more complicated characters. I don't… — Jody Hill Copy Share Image
We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I write characters focusing on them as human beings, and then you wrap them within a culture. So I think I can… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
“Our relationship with literary characters, at least to those that exercise a certain attraction over us, rests in fact on a denial.… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
