Characters Quotes

2913 quotes by 1993 authors

I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians.… — Marc Jacobs
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually… — William James
I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my… — Jim Jarmusch
I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live… — Angelina Jolie
I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with… — Angelina Jolie
Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype. — James Earl Jones
Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity. — Tommy Lee Jones
Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters. — Tommy Lee Jones
I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film. — Victoria Justice
Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but it's basically just… — Mindy Kaling
When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived… — Mindy Kaling
I just have my characters say my controversial opinions and then hide behind them. — Mindy Kaling
It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even… — Mindy Kaling
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other… — Immanuel Kant
The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold. — Mary Karr
So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is,… — Charlie Kaufman
I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so… — Charlie Kaufman
Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors. They bring an… — Charlie Kaufman
I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally. — Bil Keane
I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic… — Anna Kendrick

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