Characters Quotes

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For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became… — Michael Caine
I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I… — Michael Caine
Many of the characters who appear in the pages of the Fourth Gospel are literary creations of its author and were never intended to be… — John Shelby Spong
Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life, his mother and… — Kim Cattrall
A pilot is like the most extensive dress rehearsal you can ever imagine, because the writers are learning about the actors, the actors are learning… — Kim Cattrall
All of my characters are less than perfect. — Barbara Park
I knew so many gangsters, and I call on that experience with them for characters. — Frank Vincent
One of the reasons I never had a problem handing over my characters to other creators is that I knew that they would add their… — Jim Lee
I have always liked family-type dramas; I just think the dynamics in families make for some really interesting characters. — Gina Bellman
The international limit on mobile texting, or SMS, is 160 characters. We wanted Twitter to be entirely readable and writable on every single one of… — Biz Stone
In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look at real life,… — Matthew Weiner
I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family… — Ed Stoppard
As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows me, as an… — A. J. Bowen
I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material. — Sam Underwood
There are bits of me in all my characters. — Chris Lilley
I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning. — Peter Temple
I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters. — Idina Menzel
I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage. — Jefferson Mays
The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives. — Chuck Palahniuk
I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages. — Chuck Palahniuk

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