Characters Quotes · Page 8

There are great characters on television.

— Penelope Ann Miller

“Any girl with a grin never looks grim.”

— Amit Kalantri

I've hardly ever played urban characters.

— Vikrant Massey

I am not interested in one-sided characters.

— Jim Sarbh

I don't think I play only serious characters.

— Manoj Bajpayee

I don't like boring characters.

— Arshad Warsi

I'm attracted to the underrated characters.

— Tim Crouch

Audiences need to engage with characters.

— Nina Tassler

I've always played very human sort of characters.

— Michael Caine

“Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.”

— Amit Kalantri

All my characters are like, weird people. Weird, un-self aware people.

— Lolly Adefope

I'm fortunate to have got the opportunity to play interesting characters.

— Paresh Rawal

The characters I write about are very internal.

— Michael Connelly

I'm interested in characters. I love them, and I love to write them.

— Sebastian Lelio

“I am not in control of how my characters live their lives, only in writing it down.”

— A.H. Browne

I hope that people have more to say than 140 characters will allow them in their life.

— Matt Mullenweg

“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”

— Amit Kalantri

I don't have a clear biography of my own that I could recount in an interesting way. I'm made up of the…

— Olga Tokarczuk

“Characters are like kids. They want to be played with, taken on adventures. And they won't let you rest until you do.”

— Buffy Andrews

I like playing characters that fit my age and represent that time and the situations we face.

— Hyun Bin

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn't be acting.

— Anna Paquin

There are so many quirky characters, it's easy to fall in love with any number of the characters on 'The Carrie Diaries'.

— Brendan Dooling

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

— Penelope Wilton

A lot of readers want characters to behave in a responsible way, or they want to understand the characters' dilemma and act,…

— Susan Minot

“I want characters to do bad things and get away with their misdeeds. I want characters to think ugly thoughts and make…

— Roxane Gay

As for my looks, if I didn't look the way I do, I would probably be one of those many faces doing…

— Emraan Hashmi

I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have…

— Jonathan Evison

I like complex characters. I've been very, very lucky to portray, in these past three years, characters that are strong and fragile…

— Moran Atias

I love my job. It's such a privilege to be able to play such complicated characters. Growing up, I wanted to be…

— Ashley Bell

I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who…

— Melissa Rosenberg

“Every book begins and ends with other people- the readers who suggest the book to us and encourage us to read it,…

— Donalyn Miller

I think it's cool to play characters who are very joke-y and yet you can show a total serious, very somber side…

— James Phelps

“Many authors base their main characters off of themselves. One may wonder if it's so with Tenny. The answer is no. All…

— E.J. Norris

The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living…

— Wallace Stegner

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting…

— Emily Giffin

“As an artist she finds Dick's work hopelessly naive, yet she is a lover of certain kinds of bad art, art which…

— Chris Kraus

I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I…

— Wendy Wasserstein

“Hard and cruel though it may seem," said the Cardinal, "yet we, who hold our high office as keepers and watchmen to…

— Karen Blixen

“No writing is effortless. I’m not saying you can’t have a good day where the words just kind of flow, but even…

— Darynda Jones

“The characters who go to make up my stories and novels are not portraits. Characters I invent along with the story that…

— Eudora Welty