Characters Quotes

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I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else. — Dakota Fanning
One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people. — Edie Falco
I like playing characters with as many emotions as possible. I'd love to play a really crazy person - someone truly out of her mind. — Elle Fanning
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to… — Juan Goytisolo
None of my characters have really had jobs. — Lauren Graham
If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story. — Seth Grahame-Smith
I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and… — Seth Grahame-Smith
If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work with.… — Seth Grahame-Smith
Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through… — Seth Grahame-Smith
Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind. — Terry Goodkind
It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same… — Terry Goodkind
I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the… — Amy Hempel
Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections,… — Danny Huston
I can't tell you why I keep getting asked to play gay characters, but I never really considered 'gay' as an adjective, as a playable… — John Michael Higgins
I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way… — Shirley Henderson
As an actor, if I just did sci-fi, I think it would get limiting, like if you just play lawyers or doctors, over and over.… — Tricia Helfer
I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who's short and looks more like a character actor - we both… — Armie Hammer
I've been telling everyone for weeks now about how I get to play Lois Lane. It's a big deal. There are a few characters throughout… — Christina Hendricks
I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who… — Ed McBain
In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the… — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

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