Characters Quotes

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I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will… — Donal Logue
Okay, this is Fran Lebowitz. She gave an interview once for the Paris Review about trying to write fiction and saying that fiction writers start… — Sloane Crosley
I have a lot of people in my life who are truly ridiculous characters, and they're very, very funny people, but they don't really try… — Emile Hirsch
The love story between the hero and the heroine has to be at the center of the book. I think that's pretty true in my… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's make-believe,… — Paul Auster
I think everything you do, characters I always find, have their own voices and once you establish who that character is you find a different… — Guy Ritchie
Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I think love is a great catalyst for many characters to further the story or their own growth. — Keri Russell
With any other movie, you're entering new territory, so it's quite different to be involved in something where it's the same characters, and the same… — Anna Kendrick
I very easily decide in certain situations that I'm an outsider. That's just my own craziness. I think that I have sympathy for those characters… — Jonathan Coulton
Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead. — Jodie Foster
As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and… — Jodie Foster
So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion… — Michael J. Fox
Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark… — James Franco
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it… — Neil Gaiman
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense. — Ernest Gaines
My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and… — Henry Louis Gates
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. — Khalil Gibran
I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. — William Gibson
Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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