Madea is such an inviting figure. That's why I'll never change her. She'll never be saved. She'll never be Christian. She is… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate to play many different types of characters thus far. However, I really enjoy playing roles that are different than… — Gina Holden Copy Share Image
You know, I don't talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid about it and I… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female characters aren't. It's not that they're badly written, they're… — Ophelia Lovibond Copy Share Image
I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
I find the best way to make things real is to just put two characters into a space and let them talk… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Sometimes you don't really understand the characters you do. I don't need to. Most of the behavior is obscure and I don't… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
'Knockemstiff' is a collection of short stories set in the holler of the same name in southern Ohio where I grew up.… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Health messages are simply overwhelmed, in volume and in effectiveness, by junk-food ads that often deploy celebrities or cartoon characters to great… — Michael Moss Copy Share Image
When I shoot, I try to feel the body and the face and the weight of the actor, because the character until… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
If, at the end of the day, I can look back and see pictures of all the characters I've played, and there's… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
I did a great deal of research to write 'The Irish Duke.' Since all the people in this Lords of the Realm… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There I am, sitting in front… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
The cool thing about Kyle Killen, he writes really defined characters. I was a big fan of 'Awake' and also 'Lone Star.'… — Jaime Ray Newman Copy Share Image
In my head, at least, the business of spinning stories has no closing time. Twists in my characters' lives, glimpses of their… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I don't keep a record of the parts I've played, and I don't compare characters, but maybe I should? I could construct… — James Frain Copy Share Image
I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that people have begun to… — Carrie Preston Copy Share Image
When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro comics was Liana, Green… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
It's certainly a cliche to remark that a nonfiction book 'reads just like a novel,' but in the case of Jonathan Eig's… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
The characters I've played as an actress have been really challenging and emotionally rewarding, but there was just something missing. I was… — Danielle Harris Copy Share Image
The first 'Saturday Night Live' season I was heavily interested in was the one with Martin Short, Billy Crystal, and Christopher Guest.… — Andy Daly Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, it's really, really difficult to make a brand-new show, to write a pilot where you have… — Missy Peregrym Copy Share Image
William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people,… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
I don't want to put on any gimmicky layers just to give the character more definition. I just want to play good… — Hong Chau Copy Share Image
In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you… — Jack Davenport Copy Share Image
I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I think I'd like to do a big movie with a strong female lead, whether or not she would be a superhero.… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
Many of the characters who appear in the pages of the Fourth Gospel are literary creations of its author and were never… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
I couldn't imagine a book with many characters in it and one of them not being gay. It would have felt like… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
As an actor, I've been all over the map, but since I've moved to Hollywood, people tend to cast me in these… — Kevin Durand Copy Share Image
One of the trickiest things about 'Game of Thrones' is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
Working on 'Downton Abbey' is amazing, but there's an ensemble cast of between 18 and 21 actors. With 'Love Life,' there are… — Rob James-Collier Copy Share Image
Of course I know my characters are unlikable sometimes or have prejudices. It's not as if I'm thinking they're so endearing all… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll be fifty, sixty pages into something and I'll still be calling a character "X." I don't have a very clear… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors,… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should… — Sherwood Schwartz Copy Share Image
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