Figures Quote by Matthew Specktor

Representation is necessary, and we all want to turn on the TV and see characters who look like us and represent us in some…

— Nafessa Williams

I found that it was much better to look at the figures rather than people.

— Walter Schloss

I identify in some measure with each of my characters.

— Amitava Kumar

When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With…

— Pat Barker

The figure is just the most represented tool to get thoughts and feelings across.

— Jason Shawn Alexander

While I've been well-known for trying to keep my fictional characters individual in their looks, it's an even greater challenge not only to make…

— George Perez

I always want the audience to identify with my character in some way. I mean, sometimes you'll get characters that aren't very identifiable. Sometimes…

— Liana Liberato

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

— Alphonse Karr

Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

I think most Americans, when we're building a character, we look at the specificity of what that person is, in particular.

— LaTanya Richardson

Nobody ever recognizes themselves unless they are not the character. There are many people who have claimed to be in my books, but unfortunately…

— Salman Rushdie

Society demands that we present an identity that can be comfortably catalogued.

— Anonymous