Characters Quotes

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The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most… — Thomas Perry
I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world… — Tom Perrotta
The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer. — Zara Phillips
It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing… — Robin Quivers
As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a… — Ashley Rickards
I'm sort of a reverse Method actor. In my personal life, I become my characters. After 'One Tree Hill', I started dressing in Converse and… — Ashley Rickards
The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked… — Ian Rankin
I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters. — Kathy Reichs
As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting… — Kelly Reilly
I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I'm trying to say and I'll think about that… — Graham Russell
I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do. — Jeremy Renner
It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different… — Lance Reddick
When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the… — Nikki Reed
One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible. — Ron Rash
Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler… — Ron Rash
In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a… — Shawn Ryan
We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept… — Ali Smith
I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters. — Daniel Sunjata
If you mentioned Hanna-Barbera to people, they said, 'Oh yeah, Flintstone, Yogi, Scooby-Doo, Jetsons,' and that was pretty much it. We have characters with very… — Fred Seibert
Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it… — John Slattery

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