Character Quote by Paul Auster

Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.

— Taraji P. Henson

Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.

— E. O. Wilson

Everything I make is with intention. I'm not very haphazard with my artist work, although I wish I was sometimes. I'm very conscious of…

— Xaviera Simmons

What an audience decides about where certain characters come from is really up to them.

— Joel Edgerton

I love to be a vessel through which characters can come through. And if I can move an audience with my work, then I've…

— Rutina Wesley

Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

— Yael Stone

“In Chloe, a great city, the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about…

— Italo Calvino

“Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart!”

— Varsha Dixit

I'm a fan of characters wherever they come from. Truth be told, I wasn't a big comic book fan growing up. Maybe that helps…

— Roger Craig Smith

The situation comes first...the characters...come next...[then] begin to narrate.

— Stephen King

How it works for me is that a scene comes to mind, usually a scene between the hero and heroine, that depicts the emotional…

— Lori Foster

My characters come from a good place.

— Seth Rogen

People are infinitely more interesting than characters that I come up with. Because the characters I come up with are basically combinations of people…

— Sarnath Banerjee

I think as an actor you've got to try to preserve some of your mystery so that there's still an element of surprise about…

— Freddie Fox

In the stage of life, characters come and go after their performance. If someone is gone, just smile and clap in appreciation for them,…

— Anonymous