Characters Quotes

2913 quotes by 2044 authors

One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main… — J. J. Abrams
Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. — Darren Aronofsky
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost… — Chinua Achebe
I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. — Margaret Atwood
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time… — Margaret Atwood
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names. — Paul Auster
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats. — Richard Bach
I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible. — Kevin Bacon
I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I… — Amy Adams
I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters. — Christian Bale
I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am. — Christian Bale
I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and I'm not meant… — Christian Bale
There are movies where actors aren't characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is what it is. And we… — Christian Bale
We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be… — Christian Bale
I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters. — Alan Ball
As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and… — Alan Ball
I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can… — Alan Ball
I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable. — Eric Bana

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