Characters Quotes

"My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work"

Jeffrey Jones, Actor

"I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into, and I'll write myself out of their jam"

Richard Price, Writer

"I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more"

Ryan Gosling, Actor

"I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world"

Michael C. Hall, Actor

"One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes"

Ken Burns, Director

"I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing"

Kevin Smith, Director

"Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!"

Peter Cushing, Actor

"Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story"

Penelope Lively, Author

"Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it"

Hugh Jackman, Actor

"There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures"

Thomas Browne, Scientist

"It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there"

William Jackson

"I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to"

Ryan Gosling, Actor

"No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths"

Jena Malone, Actress

"If I had any balls whatsoever, I'd make nothing but Jay and Silent Bob flicks for the rest of my life. However, being a critical whore, I've gotta move on and 'grow' beyond those characters"

Kevin Smith, Director

"I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress"

R. A. Salvatore, Author

"Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales"

R. A. Salvatore, Author

"I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them"

Shawn Ashmore, Actor

"We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life"

Theophrastus, Philosopher

"To re-live these characters would be wonderful, because I know when the show ends it will be huge mourning process"

Gillian Anderson, Actress

"If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin"

Marguerite Young, Author

"The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be"

Josh Schwartz, Producer

"Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people"

Moira Kelly, Actress

"The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it"

Fred Saberhagen, Author

"If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters"

Dino De Laurentiis, Director

"I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me"

Kevin Spacey, Actor

"If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed"

Marguerite Young, Author

"The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses"

Stanley Tucci, Actor

"My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the movie. I've had really rewarding experiences on tiny low budget films that you'll never see but where I had a cool time creating characters as well. I love almost all of the characters I've played"

Alanna Ubach, Actress

"In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all"

R. A. Salvatore, Author

"'Anchorman' is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite characters of all time. It's my 'Gone With the Wind.'"

Eva Mendes, Actress

"The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis"

William Jackson

"We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital"

Dino De Laurentiis, Director

"I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it"

Jodie Foster, Actress

"I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them"

Juliette Binoche, Actress

"Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now"

Juliette Binoche, Actress

"Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected"

Kevin Spacey, Actor

"I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible"

Juliette Binoche, Actress

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