Characters Quotes

2913 quotes by 1993 authors

Iâ€™m infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life. — Edward Albee
Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his larger-than-life tale with… — John Burnham Schwartz
We know the excitement of getting a present - we love to unwrap it to see what is inside. So it is with our children.… — Cornelius Plantinga
I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven't seen is… — Howard Hawks
I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of… — Howard Hawks
I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be. — Elizabeth Hand
Nine Years Under is a sparkling debut--- brimming with love and bursting with life. Booker's Baltimore is equal parts The Wire and The Cosby show.… — Tayari Jones
You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow. — Zoe Kazan
When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant. — Carol Anshaw
I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters. — Daniel Cudmore
I love it when characters surprise you, just like real people. When I write a scene I just try to make the characters behave in… — Brad Falchuk
One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you… — Glenn Howerton
We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea… — Erich Hoeber
Aaron Echolls is one of the best characters that I've ever played. — Harry Hamlin
It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many… — William Jackson
The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I… — William Jackson
Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the… — Faith Prince
A Bug's Life' is a really funny movie and the characters have such different personalities. The movie is happy and then gets really sad and… — Booboo Stewart
Y'see, I get so bored so easily. I like to start with a clean slate each time. Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out… — Carl Hiaasen
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is when… — Pat Barker

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