A film that I love is 'Deliverance' from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters - the hero,… — Frank Grillo Copy Share Image
I think vampires are different from human beings, but they're sentenced to eternity on this planet. They have the same confusion about… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
A key goal for an author of history is to persuade his or her readers to forget what they know and to… — Del Quentin Wilber Copy Share Image
The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It's such a pleasure to see how they've… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
It's something I'd find rather distracting in a historical piece, looking at characters that have obviously just gotten off their Ab Blaster.… — Tom Weston-Jones Copy Share Image
You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms,… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
These characters, they have to evolve. They're getting older on the show, these are things that happen in everyone's life. People do… — Kunal Nayyar Copy Share Image
After we'd filmed one series of 'Kiss Me Kate,' everyone was saying: 'The guy's got great comic timing,' - that was the… — Darren Boyd Copy Share Image
There are not many characters for kids that have much depth, and she really has a quality to her. She has an… — AnnaSophia Robb Copy Share Image
I think all my characters haunt me. Especially the real-life ones, like Master Chief Carl Brashear, the Tuskagee Airmen. Every time I… — Cuba Gooding, Jr Copy Share Image
There are lots of things that you can go down the list and say, "Oh, these are cliches, we've seen this before,… — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. Im constantly revising this as I go along.… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
The reason I like 'Breaking Bad,' which is still probably my favorite show, is Walter White. You watch him transform, and that's… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
I can't tell you why I keep getting asked to play gay characters, but I never really considered 'gay' as an adjective,… — John Michael Higgins Copy Share Image
I find that I relate to most of the characters that I play on a really personal level, just because we're the… — Kathryn Newton Copy Share Image
At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, heroes and heroines grow not only… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances… — Erich Hoeber Copy Share Image
You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got… — Harvey Korman Copy Share Image
In theater, you go in-depth with your character, so coming to the States, it was inevitable to dig into the pilots I… — Adan Canto Copy Share Image
Ultimately, all characters have some negative and positive energies. That's just how I see it. I didn't go out looking for negative… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
“And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he were back… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of girl characters in anything usually end up being either extremely tough or extremely ditzy. There's always… — Pendleton Ward Copy Share Image
I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in 'Dumbo's Circus.' I'm used to getting… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I wouldn't think of my characters' moralities at all. And I think I identify fully with every main character I've written about… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I think a lot of times stereotypes come when there are disconnected white writers who maybe have two or three black friends,… — Dorian Missick Copy Share Image
I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers,… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
I'm not particularly fond of playing villains. I do want to be a working actor, and I've had to look at what… — Sharlto Copley Copy Share Image
You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I don't play comedy as comedy. That would be the biggest trap. I think about the characters and their situations. Then you… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
“I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal -- about twenty-five, a… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield,… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
It's taken me a long time to get work, so that's why I like to play really different characters that are really… — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Among all the characters mentioned in the Bible, none is more mysterious than Melchisedec; said to be without father, mother, or earthly… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
