Characters Quotes
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Characters Quotes & Sayings
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The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
— Henry David Thoreau
It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.
— L.A. Weatherly
I am not just my hair; I proved to myself that I am a cast of characters. I'm feeling freer to venture out of the 'look' people know me for.
— Pamela Anderson
In terms of scope, and in terms of sheer number of characters, we went beyond our limits long ago,
— Masahiro Sakurai
What happened tonight won't change a thing.""You're mistaken, Lila. Everything started changing the moment we met. — Stephanie Witter
These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.
— John Sandford
I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.
— Charlize Theron
Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories.
— Susannah Mansfield
As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be.
— Kurt Sutter
Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
— Walter Kirn
I just love playing characters that are a long way away from me.
— Dorothy Atkinson
I wanted to create a game (EarthBound) with real characters; characters whom players would recognize in the people around them.
— Shigesato Itoi
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If [the characters] grow a lot, they begin to influence the course of the story instead of the other way around.
— Stephen King
Every writer is the amanuensis to their characters
— Lucy Coats
George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.
— Gary Weiss
I've found I sometimes have the best success working on characters I didn't really connect to right away.
— Jeff Lemire
Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.
— Gustave Flaubert
I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.
— Charlotte Riley
'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.
— Evangeline Lilly
Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.
— Orison Swett Marden
She wished now she'd brought that vibrator as a flashlight instead of leaving it on the couch.
— Jill Shalvis
I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.
— Trenton Lee Stewart
I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions.
— Walt Disney
I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.
— Ryan Gosling
I want the chance to play very different characters, and I've always wanted to do more films.
— Joanne Froggatt
You also need love. Your characters need to love something, otherwise they will be unlovable.
— James Franco
There are never fewer than eight Tracey Ullman characters in any NYC nail salon at any given time.
— Tina Fey
Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires. — Robert Gregory Browne
I don't live vicariously through my characters, they live vicariously through me.
— Angel M.B. Chadwick
I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.
— Sidney Sheldon
Character depends on characters. Few people are character. Other's should try to opt one but they don't, they lose.
— Vikram Roy
I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against.
— Lauren Groff
If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.
— Annie Proulx
I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.
— Jason Reitman
The characters in 'Be Near Me' come from a genuine place, a Britain that is more than one country and more than one ideal.
— Andrew O'Hagan
If I want to get out of here, I have to be the one to save myself.
— Cheryl Rainfield
You're a lady. It's written all over you, but the West doesn't forgive any woman-unless she's got a man.
— Liliana Shelbrook
It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.
— Alexia Fast
I'm really lucky because my goal, as an actor, is to disappear into the characters that I'm playing.
— Jessica Chastain
As for dream roles, they usually just speak to you. I just crave complex characters.
— Kirsten Prout
characters, organizations, places, events, and incidents
— Barbara Longley
I try to find some similarities between myself and the characters, even if it's the tiniest thing.
— Lizzy Caplan
To make a book convincing, it's less important that the right tree be in the right place than that the characters are emotionally real.
— Anthony Marra
Often, writer's block will occur when I don't understand a character or his/her motivations. So I will make notes analysing characters.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
— William Shakespeare
Great characters tell their own stories. The author just writes it down for them.
— Molly Evangeline
In our parts such characters sometimes turn up that, however many years ago you met them, you can never recall them without an inner trembling.
— Nikolai Leskov
In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
— Barbara Delinsky
It's so fun to just slip on different hats and play different characters, even if it's just for a minute.
— Reid Scott
Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.
— Wally Lamb
As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.
— Angela Bassett
It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.
— Emily VanCamp
Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
— Bret Easton Ellis
I like to believe that intimate moments between characters don't need to be relegated to independent films.
— Colin Trevorrow
Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed.
— David Nevins
I love finding the vulnerability in characters. There's truth there. There's beauty in vulnerability.
— Juan Pablo Di Pace
I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work.
— Gail Simone
For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author ...
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.
— Emmanuelle Beart
I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.
— Jacki Weaver
If I don't fall in love with my characters, I cannot shoot.
— Bernardo Bertolucci
You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters.
— James Dashner
I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.
— Brina Palencia
I'm a fraidy cat. I play everything very safe in my life, so I think that's why I like characters that don't.
— Jennifer Jason Leigh
Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves.
— Sarah Van Arsdale
I examine other people's characteristics, so when I'm playing characters, I don't always have to make them me; I can transform into others.
— Marcia Gay Harden
ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters.
— Kevin J. Anderson
I promptly said that life was a random series of beautifully composed vignettes, loosely tied together by a string of characters and time.
— Mahbod Seraji
I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters.
— Sune Rose Wagner
The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.
— George V. Higgins
One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.
— Andrea Hirata
When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.
— Susan Campbell Bartoletti
You have to make sure you have the characters you want. That's really the most complicated part.
— Joan Didion
Actors tell stories and we play different characters, and not all of them are healthy.
— Andrea Roth
