Characters Quotes

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

"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"

Dick Schaap, Journalist

"Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done"

Ed Helms, Comedian

"Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor"

Avi Arad, Businessman

"Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"Sketches have characters, exits, entrances and are vastly different"

David Cross, Comedian

"It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying"

Bruce Beresford, Director

"There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly"

Bill Forsyth, Director

"People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment"

Ashley Judd, Actress

"My Mom and Dad did it pretty good, so I know it can work. The foremost thing I would say about working with Robin and Sean is that they were devoted to this project and devoted to their characters. You can't ask for any more from talented actors like that"

Nick Cassavetes, Actor

"I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important"

Tony Goldwyn, Actor

"Mitch and I have known each other for such a long time, and we're both so pleased to be given this opportunity at this point in our lives to play characters that we've never really had a chance to play before. It's a great gift. Plus we're wise enough to appreciate it"

Susan Sullivan, Actress

"I want to do a little bit of everything. I love sci-fi. I think it's more the characters that draw me towards things. I like strong women. I'm very interested in futuristic stuff, anything"

Sabrina Lloyd, Actress

"Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them"

Julien Green, Novelist

"What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out"

Sidney Sheldon, Novelist

"In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process"

Sidney Sheldon, Novelist

"If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them"

Sidney Sheldon, Novelist

"I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?"

Tony Goldwyn, Actor

"Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there"

Laurence Fishburne, Actor

"Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work with. He is fun. The entire time, he would go in and out of different characters, just for the fun of it. Awesome energy"

Jill Scott, Musician

"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"

John Crowley, Writer

"Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's"

Joel Hodgson, Entertainer

"I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters"

Margaret Weis, Writer

"I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling"

Frances Burney

"So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives"

Charlie Kaufman, Screenwriter

"Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens"

Rudy Rucker, Scientist

"None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's happening in Oregon - the school shootings"

Paula Danziger, Author

"I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult"

Ken Follett, Author

"Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters"

Susannah York, Actress

"Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters"

Samuel Fuller, Director

"The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes"

James Randi, Entertainer

"Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater"

Michael Tippett, Composer

"Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved"

Thorne Smith, Writer

"You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does"

Glenn Close, Actress

"The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty"

Dylan Moran, Comedian

"My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters"

Evanna Lynch, Actress

"And I'd like to believe that's true, you know, kind of showing gay people in this kind of light and - where it's not about that, it's just about the characters for the first time, like those shows were"

Sean Hayes, Actor

"Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them"

Christopher Durang, Playwright

"All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots"

Margaret Weis, Writer

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