Kind Quote by Haley Joel Osment

I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

— Karin Slaughter

If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people.

— Lawrence Wright

I think it's amusing to watch a naive, well-meaning character kind of undo more cynical characters - kind of like watching Laurel and Hardy…

— Stephen Hillenburg

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

— Isabel Allende

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

People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.

— Paul Schrader

A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality…

— Bill Skarsgard

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

It's always good to be able to identify with the characters that you're watching and not just easily put them in the bad box…

— Betty Gabriel

I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.

— Peter Mullan

It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.

— Ryan Reynolds

As an actress, I realize that viewers are entitled to have whatever feelings they want about the characters they watch.

— Anna Gunn