Characters Quotes

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I love the challenge of playing characters forced on life-changing emotional journeys. To work on a project with Billy Crudup and Sam Rockwell is just… — Douglas Booth
I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is sort of represented… — Emily Browning
I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions. — Giancarlo Esposito
I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person. — Ethan Embry
Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely… — Garth Ennis
If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write. — Garth Ennis
The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood… — Garth Ennis
I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, but I've played 'men's men,' if you will, characters… — Idris Elba
I spend a lot of time with my characters. — R. Lee Ermey
Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them. — Alan Furst
I want to continually play characters that speak to me, but also are different than what I've just done. — Santino Fontana
I'm about my characters. — Abel Ferrara
I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters. — David Lean
No 'mise en scÃ¨ne' has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as a 'mise en… — Andrei Tarkovsky
I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is still a vital… — Paule Marshall
Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts, that we find… — Les Standiford
Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters are the automobiles.… — James N. Frey
I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the… — Michael Connelly
The characters I write about are very internal. — Michael Connelly
I always talk about my characters like they're real people. — Dakota Fanning

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