Characters Quotes

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I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to… — Elmore Leonard
My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do, or thrown out. — Elmore Leonard
I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. — Doris Lessing
When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be,… — Charles de Lint
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the… — Penelope Lively
I want to do a little bit of everything. I love sci-fi. I think it's more the characters that draw me towards things. I like… — Sabrina Lloyd
I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most… — Christian Louboutin
One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all… — George Lucas
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success. — Bela Lugosi
My agent and I try to be picky with roles so that I can drive my career in different directions and be different, creative characters.… — Kellan Lutz
Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more… — David Lynch
The way Disney characters move, they're very kind of slow and fluid and flowing; one pose kind of eases into the next. If you look… — Seth MacFarlane
It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics… — David Maraniss
I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters… — Demetri Martin
I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters. — George R. R. Martin
I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. — George R. R. Martin
I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white. — George R. R. Martin
I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human,… — George R. R. Martin
I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating… — Tatiana Maslany
I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear… — Tatiana Maslany

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