Character Quotes

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.

My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.

Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

Usually when you start the characters, the first thing is the script. Your design work is about telling the story. It's later that casting comes into play, but it's a huge component.

I look at comic books, and I do very eclectic mood boards with ideas and images that have to do with a character or story point. It's a bit like spinning plates. You gradually just steal your ideas.

I'm always on the side of the characters, rather than the side of the people attacking them. I get realistic. It's not gratuitous.

Casting is so important in horror. It's so important to have strong actors to tell a story because, if you don't believe in the character, how can you be scared for them?

Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find both, if I can.

If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal.

I do remember being a fan of the Marvel characters and not liking the DC characters at all.

Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

It's weird, not to sound too actor but I think that any time you do a performance, you kind of take a little piece of that character, cause it's a part of you you're using.

I feel like when you're dealing with your main character, it has to be relatable and feel grounded, and that's the kind of acting I like to do anyway.

In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."

'Sightseers' started off as a character comedy double act.

We have to give our poor, innocent, and undeserving-of-our-badness characters trouble in order to make them characters in a story.

I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves.

It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.

What I learned from doing The Graduate was it doesnt matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.

I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you dont recognize someone because theyre so lost in the part.

I like to take a character and develop it

I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this is where you are, this is who you are. Go.

I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death."

Of course, the character of my garden is also determined by things beyond any human decision, mine or anyone else's.

We can treat human responses to cognitions as involving law-like connections grounded on free choices which show themselves in our character.

It was great to have a Republican character as likeable as Alan Alda was in the West Wing. He was one Republican I would probably vote for; he was old school.

It's a little weird accepting your voice coming out of an animated character. You don't buy it at first because it's your voice and none of us like our voices when we hear them recorded back.

Only after my father's death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In a sense, I had to turn him into a character, a figure I could control through language.

Women are often pushed into the idea that they write softer, more character-driven jokes.

In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp for forensics.

My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.

For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.

Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges and do new things.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.

Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.

You can really get into it - especially in the movies, where you really have the time to get into your character and play her well.

I think the idea of embodying the physical presence of a character is the same on stage and screen. There are just different levels of expression to keep in mind for each platform.

I love the process of creating a character; someone entirely different from myself, and depicting it, either on stage or screen.

I think there is a wonderful trend of strong female characters on television right now.

I left home at 14 and I have friends who joined the navy and the army performing troops at 9. I know people [like that]. It's a very straightforward character.

That is exciting to reinvent myself, to invent a new character. As an actor that is revitalizing.

You May Fall In Love with Beauty of someone but Always Remember 1 Thing that finally you have to live with the Character of that person not with beauty

I think that I have this core group of fans that fell in love with the character I played on Buffy and now they're following me to everything I do. They're very dedicated and loyal. I'm very lucky.

I would love nothing more to participate in a real struggle to find a character, and really delve into and develop a character. That's why I'm an actor.

I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I'm a chameleon like that