Characters Quotes

"The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things"

Richard Cecil, Clergyman

"With indies, all they have is their script and it's very important to them. The characters are better drawn, the stories more precise and the experience greater than with studio films where sometimes they fill in the script as they're shooting"

Mark Ruffalo, Actor

"I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team gets to have 400 members"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters and take them in the different directions that I want to take them. You have a lot of freedom as a writer"

Rick Schroder, Actor

"I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters"

Norman Jewison, Director

"A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing"

Richard Russo, Novelist

"You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities"

Rachael Leigh Cook, Actress

"The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live"

Phil Hartman, Actor

"I type even faster than I talk. I'm very proud of that. I type so fast. And I have to because the characters are living in real time and I've got to keep up with them. It's a miracle they even give me a royalty"

Rupert Holmes, Composer

"George Lucas puts those types of characters in for the kids. Same with Jar Jar"

Peter Mayhew, Actor

"If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'"

Winona Ryder, Actress

"Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey"

Raymond Queneau, Poet

"You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters"

Michelangelo Antonioni, Director

"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks"

Michelangelo Antonioni, Director

"What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation"

Richard Russo, Novelist

"You know, that kind of coldness, you know. And I think, yeah, I think that definitely helped. The female characters on the show, you can see some of them wanting to know what makes him tick. And I guess that translates into some of the fans outside. You know?"

Matt Robinson, Actor

"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"

Nichelle Nichols, Musician

"I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if you're playing the good guy, you get three colors: red, white and blue. But if you're the bad guy, you get the whole palette"

Ronny Cox, Actor

"Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show"

Major Taylor, Athlete

"My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life"

Joseph C. Lincoln

"And I'm so excited to remind people and even gain new fans who find out about Dharma - a new generation who could find out about Dharma and enjoy her and all the characters on the show"

Jenna Elfman, Actress

"Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories"

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Writer

"Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him"

William Burroughs

"Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level"

Terry Brooks, Writer

"This is the Bond of the new millennium. Everything is updated, from the action sequences to the interaction between the characters. All the elements reflect changes that have occurred in the world in recent years"

Rick Yune, Actor

"He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer"

Simon Callow, Actor

"That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people"

James McAvoy, Actor

"Dr. Larry and Viki are the only original characters left on the show"

Michael Storm, Actor

"As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me"

Forest Whitaker, Actor

"The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it"

Marguerite Moreau, Actress

"Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters"

Nora Roberts, Author

"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"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people"

Forest Whitaker, Actor

"The Big Chill is one of those things that everybody can identify with. Between eight characters, they can pick somebody who's somewhat like them"

Tom Berenger, Actor

"Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough"

Tom Berenger, Actor

"I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space"

Michelangelo Antonioni, Director

"I would take lots of falls and you know, get shot three or four times and this sort of thing, so all that sort of stuff. And there are tussles with various characters. I like that kind of thing"

Marton Csokas, Actor

"And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters"

Laura Innes, Actress

"The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is"

Ruth Park, Author

"Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other"

Nora Roberts, Author

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