Characters Quotes

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As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues. — Eric Jerome Dickey
I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing… — Eric Jerome Dickey
I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they're thinking about in… — Haylie Duff
In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor. — James Badge Dale
As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect.… — James Badge Dale
I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously involving on many… — Michelle Dockery
Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you… — Peter Dinklage
I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day, none… — Peter Dinklage
I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges. — Anita Desai
Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the… — Anita Diament
Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess I became an… — Bruce Davison
I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life. — Fred Durst
It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters -… — Garret Dillahunt
No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the… — Garret Dillahunt
The work evolves when you get another part, and then you're getting called on to solve difficult characters, to inject a note of humanity into… — Hope Davis
You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters. — James Dashner
In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types of jokes, reacted… — James Dashner
My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can… — Jeffery Deaver
So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot. — Jeffery Deaver
I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are,… — Joe Dante

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