Character Quotes

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.

I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.

I would like to think that Im more different from my character than I am.

[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he is thrown into, as well as doth the author himself.

I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having a beginning, middle, and ending, though not necessarily in that order.

When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.

I would tell any actress that the trick is to play all the female characters on your show, and then all the men are yours.

There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.

Pressure builds character and allows to handle what else is coming.

I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.

No veep character is as absurd as Donald Trump.

I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are lively.

What made me want to be on it was reading a really good script, and being compelled by and attracted to the characters. I really loved Maura Isles, who was very fascinating to me.

I am far from perfect, but I have something else. I heard that people in the industry are longing for more personality and diversity. Perhaps I am more a 'character' than a model.

I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and not the real one. Sometimes she takes it too personally.

As an actor, anything that you have to help get you into character is helpful.

I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.

I love when people improvise as long as they're great improvisers, what I mean by that is people can improvise within their characters and within the scene.

Being an actor opened doors for me to explore my emotions as different people and characters, and expand my own inner soul.

For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself.

There are just times when your body and your soul feed into a character and you somehow meet at the point where that character truly lives in you. It happens in plays, in TV, in films.

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

What everyone is always afraid of is the unknown, or the unfamiliar. You got to have a look for a character that is mysterious and menacing, and doesn't quite look like what we've seen before.

If I'm gonna play a character in a movie or if I want to be the lead of a film, you wanna carry the guy, you wanna get the girl, you wanna save the day or the world.

There's the acting side of it so you work with a coach. Dissect a script. If it's a character, then obviously a character study. Just depends on if there is training needed.

I watched some of Lost series. And I realized that the character they wanted me to play didn't really come in for a long time. It would have just been the wrong thing for me to do.

Character deaths in and of itself should never be done for shock.

One of the things that's great is that Batman is a character that lends himself to very personal stories.

KGBeast starts chasing our heroes in a big way, and you get the return of an old character from the mythology that I think people will be really excited to see.

It's one of the worst nightmare situations we could create for a young character, having the people who are supposed to believe in you keep telling you you're nothing.

Duke is a character who believes that heroism and the Robin mantle can exist entirely separate from Batman himself.

I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you.

Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's described in the books.

Tears have a better character cried alone. Pity can sometimes be more wolf than dog.

The nicest characters in A Week in December research are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them.

I think when you're playing a character in any film it's so crucial to have the costume that makes you feel like you're going to be that character.

I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.

The more you spend time with a character, the more you see different nuances of that character.

I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.

Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through their action or through dialog.

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.

Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see

Character I want to be: "Blunt Talk's".

Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.

I watched a lot of pot movies before we did this [Pineapple Express]. My favorites were always the characters in movies that weren't necessarily in stoner movies.

Those are the movies that we [with Evan Goldberg] always wanted to make. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, the kind of movies where violence and comedy and characters kind of work together really well.