Bad Quote by Hiam Abbass

Cliched characters are cliches because they're people being described by people who are on the outside. If you take two sentences from anybody and…

— Michael Cudlitz

When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the…

— Jennifer Beals

For any character, male or female, I think it's important to have... it's cliche to say a flawed character, but to really think about…

— Jane Jensen

You're only reduced to a cliche if you don't humanize a character.

— Viola Davis

All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them

— Ben Yagoda

What intrigues me is that people kind of naturally want to label or pigeonhole the characters. They want to make it easy for themselves…

— Alexander Skarsgard

I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved that way.

— Marti Noxon

Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have…

— Mary McCarthy

Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good—they are the heroes of their own lives.…

— Stephen King

A story is built on characters and reasons.

— Steven Amsterdam

I try to stay away from tropes, or if there is a trope there, I ensure that it's cleverly written and isn't just lazy…

— Adam Pearson

So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it's so easy for them to become cliched.

— Michelle Forbes