Character Quote by Adrian Pasdar

I feel certain negative characters, or the ones with grey shades, provide more scope for acting. These characters help you excel. And such interesting…

— Dino Morea

I've got everything against likable characters. Likable characters are usually completely forgettable, and we don't really care. I think we love villains... precisely because…

— Lawrence Osborne

Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good—they are the heroes of their own lives.…

— Stephen King

I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters…

— Adam Rapp

I think even the characters that are fundamentally evil and wrong, I want people to really love them. I think that's important to writing…

— Mark Russell

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 the time.…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a breaking point.

— Andy Daly

I think that I've always been attracted to characters who are positive and come from a very innocent place. I think there's a lot…

— Amy Adams

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock…

— Joel Edgerton

I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have…

— Kyra Sedgwick

I like to play characters, man. I almost don't even think of them as good guys or bad guys. I know that's a hard…

— Kevin Bacon

You can never judge your characters. You have to love them, really care about them. You're never just playing a villain or the crazy…

— Annabella Sciorra