My main question that I ask of my characters is, 'What does it feel like to be you? And how do you… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
“Though I didn’t start out plotting a life for Meg, it happened as the writing and the storylines unfolded, much like life… — R.J. Harlick Copy Share Image
What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren't real, with falling stars… — Charlie Cox Copy Share Image
I never really knew that I would be a lifer of strong female characters, but that seems to be the drops I'm… — Evan Daugherty Copy Share Image
The film I do doesn't have to be a film that only my kids can watch. My kids will watch films, but… — Madhuri Dixit Copy Share Image
We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of course I consider myself a Jewish writer - I am one! All of the protagonists in my five books have been… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go… — James Frain Copy Share Image
In terms of characters I wish I had created - just because I haven't dealt with anything like them - I'm really… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
When you are producing for ABC, you are producing for a big tent network. So when you are thinking about your story… — Anne Sweeney Copy Share Image
I just love to act. It's my favorite thing to do in the world, and what keeps it interesting, to me, is… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I care a great deal about LGBT U.S. servicemen and women being able to serve openly and honestly. Since early in my… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
I guess I've just gotten to the point where I don't want to be bored by the characters that I play, and… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
As a child, I was just never that interested in the lives of my favourite actors, like Cary Grant. I do wonder… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
In general, the main themes emerge early for each book, even before the storyline and characters, as I research the time and… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
I usually always think of characters and sometimes the characters are a little bit invented, so it's nice to give these invented,… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying,… — Emraan Hashmi Copy Share Image
You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see… — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
People love to talk about how the '70s are the only time they made movies about characters, and adult movies, and complicated… — Elisabeth Shue Copy Share Image
I've been astounded to discover how good to their teams and crew that Marvel are. They're so collaborative, so smart with their… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I think the most appealing characters for the audience are the ones that you never know whether to root for them or… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
One thing I think is that comics are really good at expressing emotion. I think there's a way that comics characters can… — Jeffrey Brown Copy Share Image
Don't think about how your characters sound, but how they see. Watch the world through their eyes - study the extraordinary and… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
When you're guest-starring on another show, it really requires you to jump through hoops in a way, because you're servicing the stories… — Kim Dickens Copy Share Image
You eventually come to the conclusion that there's only so much you can do with these established characters, and you start wondering… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
I think some of my best theatre training has been in the Marine Corps. Not only meeting a bunch of characters, but… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
The power of the 'Muppets,' and the popularity of these characters, is so iconic in people's lives that I had to distance… — Frank Oz Copy Share Image
Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Even if these stories are 3,000 years old, there's still so much about the characters, about the dilemmas, about their understanding of… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
In Australia, I wrote lots of little plays and put them on, and then I worked on a few different TV shows,… — Rebel Wilson Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Finding the discipline, the motivation, the focus, the passion to sit down in front of a blank piece of paper or a… — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
For the past few years my fans have made it very clear that they would like to read my novels and revisit… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
To me sympathy for a character has little to do with how morally upstanding or wicked they are. All that really matters… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
This was more of a cartoonish thing for me and it kind of took me back to SCTV, in a way, where… — Eugene Levy Copy Share Image
