Characters Quotes

"Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly"

Michael Chabon, Author

"You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff"

Harvey Korman, Actor

"How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself"

Salma Hayek, Actress

"The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters"

Vincent D'Onofrio, Actor

"Masses of girls identified with Bella in a really profound way, for want of a better word. The connection that I've seen people have - I've seen it physically. It's the characters they're flipping for"

Kristen Stewart, Actress

"There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience"

Thomas Perry, Musician

"Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie"

Shawn Ashmore, Actor

"I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say"

Sarah Zettel, Author

"I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church"

Nicholas Sparks, Author

"Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go"

Matthew McGrory, Actor

"Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly"

Paul Kane, Writer

"But in film you always watch situations or stories that you really have no relation to. A lot of times just because there's no personal connection doesn't mean you can't connect with the film or the characters in the film"

Jay Hernandez, Actor

"I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies"

Illeana Douglas, Actress

"I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career"

Charlize Theron, Actress

"With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind"

Sarah Zettel, Author

"What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch"

Jennifer Beals, Actress

"A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were"

Izabella Scorupco, Actress

"I've always believed in populating my films with characters who we like, who we have some warmth for, who have warmth for each other, who we would like to hang out with, who we emulate in one way or another"

Ivan Reitman, Actor

"There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to work with. I mean, a computer can't really generate a character that talks back and forth with you successfully"

Fred Saberhagen, Author

"I don't like characters that are left being jerks at the end of the movie"

Jeremy London, Actor

"I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected"

Kevin Spacey, Actor

"I've been telling everyone for weeks now about how I get to play Lois Lane. It's a big deal. There are a few characters throughout your life which everyone knows and this is one of them. I can't wait"

Christina Hendricks, Actress

"European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films"

Charlotte Rampling, Actress

"In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul"

Dario Argento, Director

"I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh"

Dane Cook, Comedian

"All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"Few characters in history are indispensable"

Albert Bushnell Hart, Historian

"I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I'm a chameleon like that"

Amber Tamblyn, Actress

"Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"I'm very sassy. I want to show people in my album I'm not like my characters on TV"

Ashley Tisdale, Actress

"This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters"

Richard Roxburgh, Actor

"You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters"

John Hartford, Musician

"Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them"

Mary Tyler Moore, Actress

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters"

Margaret Halsey, Author

"Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can"

James D'arcy, Actor

"I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer"

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Actor

"I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person"

Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Actor

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