Characters Quotes

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I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script. — Saoirse Ronan
To me, to spend all the time and energy and face all those creative challenges that you would spend for a two hour movie, you're… — Melissa Rosenberg
I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write… — Eli Roth
The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned. — Tim Roth
I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the… — Veronica Roth
What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with… — Salman Rushdie
When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've… — Salman Rushdie
I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves,… — David O. Russell
If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'. — Winona Ryder
I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing. — Katey Sagal
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort… — Francoise Sagan
Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things. — Zoe Saldana
I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to. — Zoe Saldana
I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for… — Zoe Saldana
I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't… — Adam Sandler
Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became… — Gus Van Sant
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians. — Jessica Savitch
I have a real eclectic taste for work, for movies, for characters and jobs. — Ricky Schroder
Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort… — Martin Scorsese

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