Characters Quotes

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It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female characters...… — Joss Whedon
I enjoy being characters rather than myself. — Kristen Wiig
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too… — Oscar Wilde
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out… — Tennessee Williams
I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and… — Rainn Wilson
Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow. — Henry Winkler
Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of… — James Wolcott
The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house. — Dick Wolf
Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel. — Bob Woodward
I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters… — Steve Wozniak
There's a lot of thinking when you choreograph something. You're not just choreographing some bodies, arms, legs flying around to look cool. It's a lot… — Donnie Yen
If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what… — Felicia Day
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more… — Jane Austen
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather… — John Stuart Mill
The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime,… — Miranda July
I knew that I shouldnâ€™t have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my… — Michael Chabon
I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after… — Margery Allingham
Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, â€˜No, Iâ€™m not interested.â€™ I believe… — Paulo Coelho
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of… — Abigail Adams
My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the books.… — Eudora Welty

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