Characters Quotes

I want to play many different characters.

I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.

That's the main thing, looking for interesting characters, good directors, and experiences where you're growing and learning.

I don't look in the mirror and think that I have flaws. I actually look in the mirror and see me. I see a lot of different characters and a lot of different things.

I love the idea of getting to play different characters and tell some stories. When you're passionate about a project, it's nice to get the part.

As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen. If you can play lots of different characters, that's fun. As long as the material is good, that's what the attraction is for me.

One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is, every sound I can make has been harvested.

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.

"Big Bang Theory" focuses on main characters who in other shows would only be auxiliary players hewing to stereotype: The gawky nerd who lives next door and says oddball things.

My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.

At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work.

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

I believe I am yet to dance my favorite role, but I am pretty open to adapting to different characters. I would love to be Odette in Swan Lake one day. I think that would be the ultimate role.

I'd like to work more, but I don't just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do interesting characters, and I'd like to be cast against type.

Im always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

I learned a lesson that I keep learning over and over, and that is that the most fun is to watch our main characters interact with each other. The most fun comes from their tight interaction.

I know, we can barely fit them in. That is a big challenge. Treating four lead characters equally, within a 30-minute format, is definitely challenging.

In New York City there are interesting characters and there are interesting stories. There's a story on every street corner. I love it. I think that's what really attracts me to making films.

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

The thing I respond to the most is just great writing, interesting characters. I like to think that there is something fun about playing a character that has a lot of authority in her own life.

I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

I want the chance to play very different characters, and I've always wanted to do more films.

In drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."

As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.

Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with something to do, to achieve, to learn, and to change.

I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.

The Hunger Games' for me is I love the books so much and the character and the story were incredible. That's kind of the game plan is just do really interesting stories with interesting characters.

No one goes through life thinking that theyre the best friend of the lead character.

T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

The only way you can talk about this great tide in which you’re a participant is as Schopenhauer did: the universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have many intelligent people who lack good characters.

You are strong enough to overcome the situation!

I won't sacrifice my characters morals/intentions/motives for the sake of what I believe is right or wrong. If the action fits the character it will be written. That's that.

Life is better than any movie or TV show. In real life there is no plot and there are billions of characters.

And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the tale might live? God of course.

I know I'm not to blame for what he did. And I know, too, that I am strong inside--stronger than I ever realized.

Yes, I’ve killed! I’ve killed as indiscriminately as God! And yes, I will kill again. I must.

I don’t know why Kate was trying to impress him, as far as I could see the guy had all the allure and social grace of a psychotic slug with halitosis and a bad head cold.

I should know better than anyone--you can't tell who a person is just from his looks.

Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your dialog for you.

You can't write a sory until you've felt. Breathe it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To live your story.

And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends.