Character Quotes
I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.
I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.
The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.
As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.
In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.
Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.
She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire.
I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way.
if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.
Barack Obama presents as kind of a cool character, and I think that that's his natural personality.
You can never judge your characters. You have to love them, really care about them. You're never just playing a villain or the crazy lady.
I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.
I want to work with people that frighten me and excite me, and characters that I don't believe I'm the best person for the part but I'm still gonna try anyway. Those are my favorite roles.
My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.
You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason.
One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.
Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and all the dolls are at the table. Listen. It's that simple.
Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.
You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.
I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
In a film, if you can capture what's going on underneath, you can begin to make a connection between the character and the people watching it.
There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I would be totally incapable of it. I'm not in the head of the characters anymore.
I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.
My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.
The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
Good hearts carry weighing balance that measures others' values based on the character merely than ever with their attire, wealth, rank or position.
The quality of a person's character can be known partly by the attitude of his ally who likes him TRULY and, probably full, by understanding who he likes REALLY as his buddy with his behavior.
The characters in the four-lettered word FACT consist of seventy-five percent ACT, so it is always sensible to see the character of a person solely by his ACT or deeds than his words.
To know the true nature of a person unknown, just see closely and correctly the character of known people who truly like him or her.
A person speaks more about his character through his shared images or uploaded profile picture than with his words or deeds, but only a leader who is always true to himself correctly reads them.
I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.
Every single experience, every single thing that's happened in my life, struggle, obstacle, trials and tribulations, I think they've all molded me to become the character and the person who I am.
I have been extremely proactive in putting myself up for characters that may have been meant to specifically be Caucasian. You bring an interesting angle to the character that isn't written.
I am one of the new characters in the brand new series of 'Postman Pat.' It has been a joy to do.
Im always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. Thats how I roll.
As an actor, it's my job to prepare myself for a role. If the character is realistic, one can't go wrong.
I never rehearse scenes with the whole ensemble, because I need to preserve some surprise. Instead, I work with the cast individually on their characters.
I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.
He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.