Character Quote by Peter Temple Download Open image “I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.” — Peter Temple ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Characters Get Get up Having Intelligence Like Morning Plot Reason Up
What I do is I come in the morning and get involved in the character, but I'm always very pleased to leave it at… — Catherine Deneuve Copy Share Image
For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day. — Hayden Christensen Copy Share Image
I like getting up in the morning, and I like better having something to do when I get up in the morning. — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find both, if… — Alexis Denisof Copy Share Image
Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in… — Aunjanue Ellis Copy Share Image
Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made. — Bob Mayer Copy Share Image
My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character. — Beau Bridges Copy Share Image
I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If it's strictly comedy, I like to bring some darkness to it. If it's strictly drama, I always like to lighten it up as… — Nestor Carbonell Copy Share Image
For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside. — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
The real difference between literature and pulp is the kind of emotional responses they elicit. Dan Brown can't pierce your heart. Patricia Cornwell can't… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
“I said, "Thank you. Go the Saints. Goodbye." Go the Saints; I'd said it. The first time. It felt like...coming out.” — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
A lot of people like cabinet making; people are intrigued by it. Women in particular like cabinet making. They like it more than men… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along. — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways. — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
“Man near entrance is shot in the head at close range from behind. The other two, multiple stab wounds, genitals severed, other injuries. Also… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances. — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
