Anything Quote by Christine and the Queens

Christine was me wanting to break free. I was tired of being prissy and shrinking and apologising all of the time, so I created…

— Christine and the Queens

Before I created Christine, I was actually really girly. Maybe I was trying to hide something, but I was trying too hard to be…

— Christine and the Queens

I think I used Christine, who is my stage character, as an excuse to finally be myself, as if I needed to say, 'Oh…

— Christine and the Queens

I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.

— Jorge Amado

Don't try so much to form your character - it's like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose. Live as you like…

— Henry James

You've gotta separate yourself from the character. It's hard... so it can make its way into your everyday life.

— Evan Peters

Something happened to me when I wrote female characters in my early plays; it was a real liberation.

— Peter Hedges

If you steal other people's characters, it doesn't work with the context of the scripts and what is written, so I wanted to make…

— Tamsin Egerton

I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

— L. J. Smith

There is a little bit of me in every part I do... I'm not really good enough to completely construct an all-new character.

— Zach Gilford

All of my characters, I feel, have some essence of who I am in them.

— Gayle Rankin

The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.

— Lacey Chabert