Quotes about characters
characters fun process reflects rushing
What's fun is that the characters in 'Broad City' are rushing and hustling, and our process reflects that. Ilana Glazer
characters lives trying
I've been trying to make a difference as an actor. I want to play characters that move people, have them look at their lives differently, or give them an escape. Hill Harper
characters playing
I'm really proud of the characters I've been able to play. Certainly, playing the character on 'CSI' as Dr. Sherman Hawkes is a wonderful stereotype-busting role.
characters script stories
My stories are pretty simplistic, but the characters are always complex and always right, and that comes from the script and my research and reverse-engineering what I find in the real world. Tony Scott
characters dedicated form inside labeled war work wrote
'The Things They Carried' is labeled right inside the book as a work of fiction, but I did set out when I wrote the book to make it feel real... I use my own name, and I dedicated the book to characters in the book to give it the form of a war memoir. Tim O'Brien
characters remain women
Women remain dramatically under-represented as characters in film when compared to their representation in the U.S. population. Sharon Lawrence
characters coming fully invent love people scene trying
So much of what I do... is coming up with new characters and trying to invent voices for them, and to have people fully fleshed out in my head and to know who can say what in the scene and who these characters are... I love it. Rob Thomas
characters lives loud noticed people quite relief stories
The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are. Rachel Joyce
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On reading the first part of Anthony Powell's four-part masterpiece, 'A Dance to the Music of Time,' I was struck by one of the characters - an irritating peripheral character- who keeps showing up in the main protagonist's life. Rebecca Pidgeon
characters confront correct families family issues liked sure
Family, many, many years ago, was a simple, correct family, and now I think if you're going to do a family show, you'd better make sure your characters are liked by the families watching, that's it. And now it's more about issues that confront families and their kids, and those are very important issues. Aaron Spelling
characters dynamics humanity serenity
But now I feel like Firefly and Serenity are their own genre. It's not science-fiction so much as it's about humanity and characters and dynamics between people. Sean Maher
characters quite
There are some characters in 'The Names' who are very much heroes and others who can only be called villains. But generally, as we get to know them, we see most of the characters are, or at least become, quite nuanced. Peter Milligan
characters clear people playing
Before there was any talk of a movie, people would sometimes ask me what actors I would imagine playing these characters. And the only thing I could ever say is: I have such a clear idea of these characters that they'd have to play themselves. Michael Cunningham
characters ears environment foreground goes home narrative people tv watch watching
Most people just half-watch TV. They watch TV while they are doing many other things in the environment of their home. So, what they are doing goes through their ears as much as through their eyes. In television, the narrative and characters are in the foreground of everything, because you are watching TV as you do other stuff. Alfonso Cuaron
characters discovered lead learning
What I discovered is I don't like to repeat lead characters because one of the most pleasurable things in a book to me is learning about the lead. Alan Furst
characters fan journey journeys love material rich talk three time work
Every time I talk about 'The Shield' I kind of talk about it from three perspectives, as if I'm three people, because I'm a fan of the show. I'm in love with all the other characters and their journeys and their work. But then, as an actor, I love getting this kind of rich material and having to do it. As my character, did my journey finish? Benito Martinez
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I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the first novel I've been learning techniques to distance myself from the characters so that they are not me and I don't try to protect them in ways that aren't good for the story.
characters format people picked somebody structure
Your structure and format may not be perfect, and you may not have picked the perfect franchise, but if I pick up a script, and the characters are real, whole, complicated and come from a place of somebody who really is feeling it, that's what people remember.
characters complex order people women
Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable. Bryce Dallas Howard
characters creatures face flawed happier loving main people
My main characters are the most sunny, happy, optimistic, loving creatures on the face of the Earth. I couldn't be happier that's where I start. I can put as many flawed people in the dog's world as I like, but the dog doesn't care. Dog doesn't judge. Dog doesn't dislike. Dog loves. That's not so bad. Bruce Cameron
characters films indicative
The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take. Imtiaz Ali
characters contrast dramatic emotion empathize gets imagining logic machine sequence staged tool
The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations. Ira Glass
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While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.' Claire Cameron
characters life obnoxious
All of the trickster, rascal characters that I write have the voice I aspire to. In real life, you can't be that obnoxious and get away with it. Christopher Moore
characters defined expect jon people slick
We have defined these characters - people always expect to see me in a pencil skirt. When they see me out of one - much like when they see Jon Hamm's hair when it isn't slick - they say, 'Wait a minute, you're all 2010!' Christina Hendricks
characters deal director drive early editing stressful
To me I don't deal with stress well at all, and it is stressful enough for me to deal with my own one character. So if I had to deal with all the characters and the special effects, and the editing and make the writing tweaks and do everything the director does, that would drive me to an early grave, and I just can't do it. Doug Jones
characters declare female kitten lives rather tearing wearing
I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do, tearing each other's characters to pieces, and wearing out their lives in vanity and vexation of spirit. Jane Welsh Carlyle
characters scenes travel
If my characters travel somewhere, I generally write about a place I know to give the scenes more authenticity. Sara Shepard
characters complex deeply great
O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible. Gabriel Byrne
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We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do. Geena Davis
characters musical roles
I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater. Idina Menzel
characters famous imposing
I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf. Ian Mckellen
characters deserves few finance george
George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.