Characters Quotes

2913 quotes by 2038 authors

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion. — Nic Pizzolatto
The thing that attracted me to acting the most was I always felt quite unsure or insecure as a kid, and for some reason, when… — Christie Laing
Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves? — Siri Hustvedt
I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just… — Harland Williams
When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age. — Julie Kagawa
I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them. — Julie Kagawa
At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, heroes and heroines grow not only into a perfect… — Sarah MacLean
Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes… — Dan Gilroy
I like characters that make choices and try to drive their own fate. — Cary Fukunaga
I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters. — J. August Richards
Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately. — Laila Robins
The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His… — Richard Cecil
In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add… — Mary Grandpre
Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader… — Thorne Smith
Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of… — Elizabeth George
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not… — Julien Green
What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how… — Sidney Sheldon
None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone. — Nicholas Sparks
This was more of a cartoonish thing for me and it kind of took me back to SCTV, in a way, where the characters are… — Eugene Levy
Now I am an old hag, I get to play much more interesting characters. — Joan Greenwood

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