Character Quote by Brad Warner

For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm…

— Richard Dooling

Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.

— Renata Adler

There's so many different people that I'm fascinated by. Different kinds of characters that I meet in, like, everyday life, that I'm like, 'I…

— Tatiana Maslany

It seems to me that any popular fictional character's appeal is idiosyncratic in nature. Characters with large followings - Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter, the…

— Jason Lutes

But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world…

— Jennifer Egan

No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. [All have] particular idiosyncrasies that make…

— Cary Elwes

I've always been attracted to characters that were interesting to me, and different.

— Milla Jovovich

I care very much about all of my characters, recurring or not. I try to imagine something about that person beyond his or her…

— Jason Lutes

A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself.

— Barbra Streisand

I admired anyone who could unsettle people.

— J. G. Ballard

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the…

— Erich Hoeber