Always Quote by Richard Ashcroft

I created this character that I still have of a guy who is a little bit of a nincompoop - I'm poking fun at…

— Harry Anderson

There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.

— Joel Edgerton

Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.

— Daryl Hannah

When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do,…

— Michael Caine

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder willspeak out of stone walls.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to…

— Christopher Meloni

Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.

— Steve Miller

I think that Brighton, for a crime writer, is almost like a character.

— Peter James

The Collector [John Fowles book] does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that's become a banal trope…

— Emma Donoghue

With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family.

— John Banville

Everyone steals from something or someone.

— Janice Dickinson

I always think once you have the lead protagonist, you cast around that character.

— Nicolas Winding Refn