Characters Quotes

"I do like to explore evil characters in my books"

Thomas Perry, Musician

"We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about"

Sonia Braga, Actress

"If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write"

Garth Ennis, Writer

"Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters"

Steve Buscemi, Actor

"I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters"

Mira Sorvino, Actress

"You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much"

Rachel McAdams, Actress

"We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'"

Paul Haggis, Director

"It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed"

Walter Lord, Author

"It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do"

Garth Ennis, Writer

"You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up. These are things that are okay for cartoon characters to do"

Joan Severance, Actress

"Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female"

Rose Tremain, Novelist

"I am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies in the back stories of these characters"

Joe Murray, Artist

"It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation"

Walter Hill, Director

"It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move"

Tony Curtis, Actor

"I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there's something great about loving what you love and not caring if it's unpopular"

Kristen Bell, Actress

"It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want"

Margaret Haddix, Author

"I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me"

Ryan Gosling, Actor

"It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are"

Brenda Blethyn, Actress

"It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep"

John Jay Chapman, Poet

"The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon"

Robert Fortune, Scientist

"You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film"

Thomas Perry, Musician

"Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa"

Peter Straub, Writer

"Well, I think I've made 44 films and only like four times I've played real characters I'm just drawn to people who have a pioneer spirit, this extraordinary energy and commitment to their cause"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part"

Walter Jon Williams, Writer

"I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy"

Thayer David, Actor

"Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that"

Garth Ennis, Writer

"When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts"

Juan Goytisolo, Poet

"If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along"

Victoria Pratt, Actress

"I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way"

Steve Buscemi, Actor

"None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone"

Nicholas Sparks, Author

"I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives"

Randy Harrison, Actor

"All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story"

Nicholas Sparks, Author

"I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image"

Michael Chabon, Author

"There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters"

Sean Bean, Actor

"006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters"

Sean Bean, Actor

"I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters"

David Lean, Director

"I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with"

John Boorman, Director

"The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not"

Thomas Perry, Musician

"When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters"

Shawn Ashmore, Actor

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