Casts Quote by Ann Patchett

Creatively, I just like interesting characters. So straight, gay, or whatever - like, whatever, wherever the characters are coming from or their lifestyle.

— Dee Rees

I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good…

— Randy Quaid

For the most part, there's so much of me in my characters.

— Rashida Jones

I just like to inhabit a character really deeply.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I like characters who are larger-than-life, whether life-loving women or the artist or guru who grabs everything. But I don't live among people like…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I like characters where there's something going on and something to make him real. If you find out what somebody cares about, all of…

— William Fichtner

I like characters that do big things boldly and are driven by intensely personal feelings.

— Mark Pellegrino

As long as it comes across, the characters are well-served, the stories are good, and people like it, that's it for me. I'm a…

— Jim Cummings

I love portraying different characters.

— Alexa Bliss

A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

— Taraji P. Henson

My personal life is a big part of who my character is.

— Sonya Deville

I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their…

— David O. Russell