Character Quote by Glenn Howerton

I've always enjoyed watching characters that aren't aware that they're doing anything funny. And I think that inherently makes them funnier.

— Steve Carell

If I'm doing a talk show or an interview, or pretty much anything where I can't control the context, I'm loath to do the…

— Stephen Colbert

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

— Alexander McCall Smith

When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would…

— Dallas Roberts

Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break…

— Michael Fassbender

I have a lot of people in my life who are truly ridiculous characters, and they're very, very funny people, but they don't really…

— Emile Hirsch

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the…

— Joel Coen

You know, the hard thing about audiences not liking what a character does is that they sometimes take it out on the actor personally.…

— Linda Cardellini

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

— China Mieville

What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness,…

— Anne Enright