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Characters Quote of the day

I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.

You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.

Saturday Night Live is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.

Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.

The only difference is that religion is much better organized and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

Believe in your character. Animate (or write) with sincerity.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play interesting characters. That's really it.

The main character of any living system is openness.

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.

When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls - I'd be the crazy diva Barbie and she'd be the homeless Barbie.

I wouldnt call acting a job - its a pleasure. I love getting to play different characters, getting to play dress up, and getting paid for it.

From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

My brand is good storytelling. I really want [my company] Hillman Grad Productions to be associated with great stories, interesting characters; things that are three-dimensional and feel honest.

I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them.

I was raised in the theater and I started acting when I was nine. To me, the idea of being an actor was about playing different characters and being a chameleon. That's why I was in the theater.

Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.

I love being able to play as many different characters, in as many different worlds as I possibly can. That's what I really enjoy.

I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.

I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

If you look at me in 'Ride Along,' even though I'm playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.

As an actor, you're supposed to be able to form yourself into different characters and different roles. It's a transformation, and it is awesome.

It's always good I think in general to have different energies on screen, like it's nice to have different characters go at different speeds, just like different people work at different speeds.

If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.

I am attracted to the diversity of different characters. I like doing things that test the boundaries of character and genres, outside the comfort zone.

I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.

Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories.

From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that's fantastic for me.

I love the process of auditioning and having the chance to play a million different characters in one week - it's great.

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.

Everybody is a main character to someone

Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of vivid, passionate feelings.

I've always wanted to be an actor that explores different genres and different characters.

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

That's true, you don't want to let anybody down and here are millions of people who've been waiting for their favorite characters to be brought to life and you don't want to disappoint.

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters.