Character Quotes

My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.

As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.

You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.

The cool thing about doing films and being different characters is that it's new everyday and new every project. So, you're always learning something different and you get to do research.

I love fantasy. I love thrillers. I love action. I'm all over the place. As long as the story and characters are good, I'll love it.

I'm never lonely when I'm writing, because you live with the characters that are so alive in your mind. And you really see them and know them and get to be friends with them.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

Working with Dario [Argento] was a lot of fun. He's a larger-than-life character, and with an Italian accent.

The great thing about working on a genre show is that you can basically have a season finale where every character is left destroyed, and then hit the reset button and come back for the next season.

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

Kyle had to give her credit; it took skill—plus no heart and a serious abuse of the English language— to break up with someone in fewer than 140 characters.

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.

I've managed to include only enough historical detail to give the "flavor" of the time period while keeping the characters and story focal.

Supernatural was great because my character changed so much from beginning to end, always keeping me on my toes.

I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.

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

I enjoy working on new, different types of characters. Playing a range is what excites me.

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

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.

Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good as synonymous terms, inseparably united in the same character.

I was like, "Everybody sees my characters. Nobody sees me!"

For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don't care is when I'm in character.

I'm not someone who doesn't want to see the films, but I like to see them as an end product when the whole nuance of the character is put together.

That's the great thing about the 'Sin City' movies. Each little slot is incredibly meaningful, and each character has their own moment.

I like to leave the movie theater and still be thinking about the film and questioning why the character did that.

There are two movies where I keep my clothes on. My parents will be very proud. They're challenging characters, which I'm excited about.

It's quite quick for me to know if I want to play a character or not.

I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.

Character is the plot in many ways

In the off-season you like to take a little time for yourself, but I'd like to say that people say I live in the weight room and that I had the keys to it. That's just the type of character I am.

If the characters [in a movie] aren't real, if their lives aren't realistic, if you call bullshit at any point in their journey, then the rest of it is invalid.

As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.

For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they’ll do in any scene you put them in.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

I am always interested in characters who are in these kinds of transitional moments in their lives, when it's not clear where they're going to end up. It's interesting territory for fiction.

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

In The Greens Are Gone, I play a character that's bipolar, so that was a big step and quite a challenge.

I'm not really a Method actor. I'm always afraid of working with someone who's afraid to [break character] and won't talk to anyone because they're in character.

If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think its foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.

Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.

When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all - getting into their truth and to justify what they do.

I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.

I try to offer as much as I can to the director so he has as much to work with as possible to create the character that, really, he wants to create in a sense.

When I read a film script, I kind of see it in my head and I see the moments that shape what I understand the character to be. There's very little time for rehearsal.

My characters are not plastic.

Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers.

Were not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, thats just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability. I don't know why. I know I can play these roles, but they're certainly not the only roles I can play.