Character Quotes

Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.

There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.

I would do the baby voice and it's kind of like this character I made up. But in real life, I'm completely different. I'm very smart. I think a lot of people will assume I'm an airhead.

Some audiences might find homosexuality an uncomfortable subject matter, and a character who is a Japanese collaborator is always uncomfortable.

I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

What is the character trying to say? Why? Be as specific as you can, using sense images that evoke something about the character. Try using the character's senses, even if the character is you.

The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.

I base all my characters on hair.

I had done a little bit one other time. This character [in Jack Reacher] is a psychopath, but I had been hired by Carlton Cuse and Randall Wallace.

If you watch a movie, it never happens that you see a character that is in every single scene.

Some like to start from the inside and then go to the outside. I'm the other type of actor. First, I have to know how my character looks, how he walks, how he drives, how he eats.

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.

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.

When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.

You never want to judge your character.

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them.

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.

Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.

When guys see a movie starring women, they go, "That must be filled with these characters I see in these movies who are such a drag." And that's just bad for everybody.

The Sound of Building Coffins is a soulful work from a writer of the weird. Maistros does more than make you feel for his characters and their twisted, damaged lives; he makes you *want* to feel.

I always would be happy to make a character even more unlikable, but you know, there's a limit and if you go there, you get into a very different kind of movie, man.

When I started to allow the characters to go where they wanted to go, I just had to follow.

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

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

I did do, well before Pop Art, all the cartoon characters as paintings.

I always run the stories by Capcom. They read the scripts and give their comments. I would never want to kill a character that they really want to use in the next game.

I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.

I just want to play strong characters, whatever that is in.

If you're lucky enough to get to play a character for a long time, it's life-changing.

Anne DeGrace is a gifted story teller and Far From Home contains some of her most intriguing characters. Thoroughly enjoyable.

In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing.

It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play.

I was happy that I finally could play a mature woman, because I started working when I was a teenager and was always playing characters according to my age.

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being.

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are.

I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.