Character Quote by Drew Magary

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too…

— Jessica Cutler

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters…

— Paul Kane

Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you.

— Anonymous

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character,…

— Thomas Bernhard

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

Character is what you do when no one is watching.

— Paul Rabil

I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why they do…

— Natalie Portman

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

— Rod Paige

You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see them as…

— Mark Russell

I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.

— Kathryn Lasky

I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

— Taylor Sheridan

You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got…

— Ricky Gervais