Characters Quotes

"I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along"

"I can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in store for our characters until we turn up to shoot the episode. But it's fair to say that Betty and her son bring a brand new mystery to the street and they will be around all season"

"I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges"

"I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible"

"I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful"

"Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language"

"I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre"

"I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip"

"Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children"

"I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother"

"Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'"

"Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key"

"I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?"

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

"It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it"

"Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them"

"I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work"

"You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters"

"I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining"

"The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated"