Characters Quotes

A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe.

As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters.

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters.

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these stories that we had collected and assigned them to characters who would be played by actors.

Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.

Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate.

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.

All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well.

I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.

I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history.

After Lock, Stock, all these really nasty small town characters came knocking at my door trying to tell me stories, and somehow I ended up with this guy whose brother was feeding people to pigs, and that's what he did to get rid of people.

If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

I always liked strange characters.

I just love doing broader work - I always get asked to do fairly heavy-duty, intense dramas and interesting, psychologically intense characters. But you know, it's nice to make people laugh sometimes.