Characters Quotes

"There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul"

"Sometimes when you do a part, the wall between you and the characters can be very porous. You can sort of move in and out of your character's persona and being. And that just couldn't happen on this one because of working with him"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow there's always a journey to go on. There's always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters"

Jeremy Northam, Actor

"My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier"

Orlando Bloom, Actor

"To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters"

Tara Strong, Actress

"I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years"

Zachary Quinto, Actor

"I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now"

Tara Strong, Actress

"There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters"

Tara Strong, Actress

"Start as early as you can. Make tapes of your characters"

Tara Strong, Actress

"Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate"

Raymond E. Feist, Author

"When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home"

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

"In a way, the characters often do take over"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything"

Don Bluth, Artist

"There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen"

Keenen Ivory Wayans, Comedian

"It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you"

Josh Lucas, Actor

"We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything"

Don Bluth, Artist

"So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"After Lock, Stock, all these really nasty small town characters came knocking at my door trying to tell me stories, and somehow I ended up with this guy whose brother was feeding people to pigs, and that's what he did to get rid of people"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper"

John Updike, Novelist

"I created the characters from what I read in the script. I decided how I should talk, accent, no accent, my own voice, or a created voice. Then, I visualize what I should look like"

Ruth Buzzi, Actress

"I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy"

Nicholas Lea, Actor

"I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it"

Jean M. Auel, Writer

"I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer"

Alison Lohman, Actress

"Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way"

Matthew Barney, Artist

"I mean when I was working shall we say with Disney, you know they sent me the script for the film Hercules and I had to imagine what all the characters looked like. And to develop those characters, so nothing exists visually when I get the script"

Gerald Scarfe, Artist

"I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off"

Donald E. Westlake, Writer

"The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird"

Julie Walters, Actress

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