Character Quote by John Guare

I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension between rule-breaking…

— Matt Nix

I don't like to play characters that are too perfect.

— Amanda Seyfried

Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.

— Sir Fulke Greville

What happens in a play is determined to a certain extent by what I thought might be interesting to have happen before I invented…

— Edward Albee

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

— Aldous Huxley

“If you enjoy knocking self-publishing writers, write something better first, then, knock on!”

— Robert Scott

Writing from a character is really fun - sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else's perspective.

— Willy Mason

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.

— David Hare

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not…

— Jennifer Beals

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

Every so often you get to play wonderful characters maybe at the wrong time in your life. Sometimes, you get to play terrible characters…

— Jude Law