Characters Quotes

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.

I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.

I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.

In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a little bit more likable.

Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

You know a lot of times wrestlers get too full of themselves. They can't separate themselves from the characters. They get used to the excitement, the energy, the lifestyle and the money and with a lot of these guys, when it stops, they self-destruct.

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.

I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do.

I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story.

I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.

006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.

I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy.

To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work.

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.

No matter what's happening in my life, I can always get lost in the romances of my characters.

Certainly it's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has as many characters as this does, and the piece took on a life of its own to try and shape it. That took all the time we had in editing.

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

With drama, especially, it seems like the bigger the budgets and the edgier the characters, the more interesting they are. We're very lucky because 'Modern Family' wouldn't fit on cable: they'd want us to push it more and be edgier and turn it into something that it's not.

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name in life! The show is such a phenomenon all over the world.