Character Quote by David Maraniss

You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional…

— Rachael Leigh Cook

Of course I know my characters are unlikable sometimes or have prejudices. It's not as if I'm thinking they're so endearing all the time.…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

A lot of my characters are born out of a small grain in a person that I heighten and take to that next level.…

— Lauren Lapkus

If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I…

— Jez Butterworth

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

— Chadwick Boseman

What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to…

— Nancy Kress

You take a look back at some tough parts of your life, just bad things that have happened: they tend to build your character…

— Case Keenum

You have to create characters - certainly in series TV - who people engage with. They don't have to be nice; you don't have…

— Michael Hirst

I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious,…

— Jonah Hill

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know…

— Cassandra Clare

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock…

— Joel Edgerton

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance:…

— Mark Twain