Characters Quotes

"People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story"

Len Wein, Cartoonist

"I felt they had really moved the characters in a direction that was very interesting. The family had really felt the impact of what had happened to the"

JoBeth Williams, Actress

"A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves"

Timothy West, Actor

"The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play"

Patrick Marber, Writer

"I like playing dark, offbeat, quirky characters"

Mischa Barton, Actress

"It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life"

Margot Asquith, Author

"It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it"

Patrick Marber, Writer

"We had this party in New York, and there were a lot of gay men there dressed up as the characters. I showed up just looking like myself, but it was a real case of shame. They looked so fantastic. We could never quite live up to it"

Jennifer Saunders, Comedian

"I love the TV show, and if you make a bad movie it means you've soiled it. Just like if we made an advert. We were offered so many times and I'd say, look, this is the good thing, and you can't compromise that, because then you compromise the integrity of the characters"

Jennifer Saunders, Comedian

"In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope"

James Gunn, Writer

"I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny"

Dave Rowntree, Musician

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

Dave Rowntree, Musician

"When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement"

Irvine Welsh, Novelist

"One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters"

Nancy Kerrigan, Athlete

"This was more of a cartoonish thing for me and it kind of took me back to SCTV, in a way, where the characters are just a little broader and you can have that kind of fun going a little over the edge"

Eugene Levy, Actor

"I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters"

Eugene Levy, Actor

"When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history"

Charlotte Mary Yonge, Novelist

"I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters"

Conrad Hall, Artist

"Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts"

Edward Hoagland, Author

"Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well"

Chris Kattan, Comedian

"I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated"

Barbara Hershey, Actress

"The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control"

Joan D. Vinge, Author

"In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow"

Jessica Cutler, Celebrity

"For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood"

Anne Tyler, Novelist

"It's true that it's a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them"

Anne Tyler, Novelist

"I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own"

Anne Tyler, Novelist

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

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point"

Len Wein, Cartoonist

"I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens"

James L. Brooks, Producer

"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement"

George Bancroft, Historian

"Yes, the first job I had at the studio was Snow White. I don't like the term particularly, but I got stuck with the human characters. They just didn't have that many people who could draw humans"

Marc Davis, Artist

"All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour"

Ben Kingsley, Actor

"Changes have taken place since year one. When Caruso left, that was a big change. We've been able to adapt nicely. It's given us new opportunities for different characters and story lines"

Dennis Franz, Actor

"I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now"

Gavin MacLeod, Actor

"Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow"

Henry Winkler, Actor

"I think one of the coolest things about the job is the level of trust we have for each other. The actors fully trust that the writers will write amazing episodes, and the writers trust that the actors will follow their instincts with the characters"

John Krasinski, Actor

"The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters"

Salvatore Quasimodo, Author

"You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd"

Joel Coen, Director

"I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?"

Joel Coen, Director

"I'd like to play nothing but good characters"

Joan Leslie, Actress

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