Famous Quotes & Sayings

With 'Related' and 'Hot Properties,' these are characters you've seen before. It seems like a formula and in wake of 'Sex and the City,' it seems like they're trying to rip it off.

Kimberly Willis Holt

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

I think I've been good at getting into lonely and troubled characters because, not to brag, but I'm the complete opposite in real life.

Kim Edwards

I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters if I'm not worrying about the logistics.

John Burnside

Every time I write a book, I think how I could be doing it better to please people - a nicer book with nicer characters - but I just can't.

Jean M. Auel

I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it.

David Small

I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I didn't - you know, our characters were so at odds with one another right from the beginning. But I do understand them now as human beings, with the understanding of an adult.

Hope Davis

I do feel I get called to troubleshoot parts that could be so unsympathetic, ... I don't mind that. To me, they seem like juicy roles. They are characters in conflict, but they are not despicable. I'd rather be this kind of wife than a woman wringing her hands at home saying, 'When is he coming back?'

Jason Robert Brown

Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.

Michael K. Williams

People say they love the characters I've chosen in my career. But I didn't choose anything. I just happened to be working and these were offered to me.

Mike White

People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.

Or invent new wrinkles or characters or whatever to keep them fresh.

Steve Buscemi

I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play.

Lorrie Moore

I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'

Julie Kagawa

I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go along. Occasionally, the characters surprise me, and I wonder how we got here. Other times, the characters are stubborn and won't do something I want them to in the story.

John Crowley

I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.

Jim Lee

So much of comics are dictated by characters talking to one another - or in focused spaces where 'the camera' has to stay in pretty close on what's going on.

Edmund White

Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.

Kyra Sedgwick

Sometimes when you do a part, the wall between you and the characters can be very porous. You can sort of move in and out of your character's persona and being. And that just couldn't happen on this one because of working with him.

Jordin Sparks

Sometimes I'll go on a Twitter spree and reply as much as I can. Talking to my fans is so much fun even if it is in 140 characters or less.

Douglas Booth

Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures.

Perhaps it's because I am reading romance differently than I did when I was younger, but I like my characters older. Grounded in reality. And nothing is more real than kids.

Matthew McConaughey

I've read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, 'Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.' I don't want to be part of that.

Seth Numrich

I've played a couple of gay characters onstage, and it's always been something I'm comfortable with. I grew up in a family and a culture that doesn't have stigmas about sexuality.

Nicholas Sparks

I very seldom, very seldom, even know what my characters look like. I keep it vague.

These characters are the product of a virtuoso act of the imagination.

Marcia Harden

The story takes in the lives of several characters on three different levels at the same time, including the TV series. It's complicated, but very entertaining.

Marguerite Moreau

The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it.

Sally Kellerman

That they were going to rebel? Yeah. They were just such rebels anyway, and their characters were rebels, so they just lived it to the hilt.

That's how we're made this year. We're a team, like an NFL team, that's going to utilize our personnel, that's going to use all the characters in our offense.

Graham Moore

The representation of gay characters on screen is important for us all to think about because there are sadly too few representations of gay characters on screen in mainstream cinema. If Marvel starts making movies about gay superheroes, then we'll be in a really great place. We're not at that place.

They're happy to see the characters that they know from television and 'The Big Wish' movie.

Geoff Johns

Aquaman is one of the greatest characters at DC Comics and one of my favorites.