Characters Quotes

"I have agreed to lend my voice to Nature's Guard, an animated series which hopefully will go into production in the near future. The characters are all animals. My voice will be for a character named Longtail"

Jeremy Bulloch, Actor

"I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it"

Joan D. Vinge, Author

"The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them"

Joel Coen, Director

"I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant"

Joan D. Vinge, Author

"One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters"

Jeremy Piven, Actor

"The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil"

Len Wein, Cartoonist

"I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters"

Joe Mantegna, Actor

"Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun"

James Franco, Actor

"My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives"

Harvey Fierstein, Actor

"Aaron Echolls is one of the best characters that I've ever played"

Harry Hamlin, Actor

"We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do"

Geena Davis, Actress

"When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing"

Joan Van Ark, Actress

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

Jeanne Moreau, Actress

"It is very grand and sumptuous and awesome to look at but it was really about the characters for me"

Emmy Rossum, Actress

"I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable"

Joel Coen, Director

"I don't think he's permanently affected me except in the sense that I miss him. I miss being him. Or trying to be him. He is one of a gallery of characters that have had an impact on my career and therefore my life"

Derek Jacobi, Actor

"It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one"

Ismail Merchant, Producer

"But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them"

Douglas Sirk, Director

"Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people"

Cornelia Funke, Author

"The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life"

Gene Siskel, Critic

"If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration"

Daniel Greenberg, Educator

"I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors"

Curtis Sittenfeld, Writer

"The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had its run, I think the characters can go on in perpetuity"

Dan Castellaneta, Actor

"I remember the guest stars who came, they were always trying to find a new plot for their characters because they wanted to stay. It was really a great working environment"

Caroline Dhavernas, Actress

"I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table"

Donnie Wahlberg, Actor

"There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face"

Carl Barks, Artist

"I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool"

Craig McCracken, Artist

"Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very funny, we played them very straight"

Burt Ward, Actor

"We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way"

Dwight Yoakam, Musician

"I did private study for about a month, five days a week, six hours a day. I came to understand the character in ways that I never would've previous to that. I was so innocent in respect to ways of creating characters"

Corin Nemec, Actor

"With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life"

Bruce Beresford, Director

"Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better"

Anita Desai, Novelist

"It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers"

Caroline Dhavernas, Actress

"I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more"

Alison Bechdel, Cartoonist

"I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time to do research. If I don't it just isn't exciting but if I do, it can be fun because I can learn about that person and the world that they live in and I can become somebody else"

Daryl Hannah, Actress

"When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say"

Arthur Herzog, Novelist

"When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match"

Bruce Beresford, Director

"When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers"

Bobby Vinton, Musician

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