Characters Quotes

I always talk about my characters like they're real people.

You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny.

I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way.

I'm about my characters.

You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

I've had the opportunity to do a wide range of stuff, a lot of different characters and they've all had their own kind of thing.

My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do.

I guess, what I'm saying is that when I've been this surprised by my own characters and world, all bets are off.

Aaron Echolls is one of the best characters that I've ever played.

And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

I just have my characters say my controversial opinions and then hide behind them.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.

Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.

I look for characters who are emotionally driven.

I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.

I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

In a way, the characters often do take over.

You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything.

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters.

The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.

The characters in 'Be Near Me' come from a genuine place, a Britain that is more than one country and more than one ideal.

I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film.

I like to play very raw characters, characters who have a degree of vulnerability and passion about what they're doing.

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.

One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.

I am one of the new characters in the brand new series of 'Postman Pat.' It has been a joy to do.

I don't discuss my own beliefs in public, but I will say the beliefs I've given my characters do not necessarily represent what I myself believe.

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.

I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

And well historically it's never been a good thing to compare yourself to biblical characters.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.

'Pigeonholed' isn't the right word, because I feel like I've had a very wide range of characters that I've been allowed to play.

I consciously try not to play favorites with my characters or my books.

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls.

I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.

Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

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

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting.

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.

I don't think of my characters as people I create, I think of them more as people I have met and whom I'm exploring on the page. I don't actually think of myself as having 'created' any of these people.

It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

I'm drawn to dark characters, and to things that are really weighty.

I can always see something of myself in the characters I play.

To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.

The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

I've been lucky to play characters that are really broad.

If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.

If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.

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.

I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.