Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrea Seigel

I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I've been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity - even better, a TV.

I like characters with problems. I like to understand them... To play alcoholics, fetishists, strange girls, you have to dig deep within yourself. It's 'elsewhere' that interests me.

Stephan Pastis

I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability.

Ann Aguirre

I immerse myself in everything I write; I feel what my characters do. I suffer with them. I cry as I type, sometimes to the point that I can't see the screen.

John Wells

I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or a new story for characters you love and care about.

Rutina Wesley

I love to be a vessel through which characters can come through. And if I can move an audience with my work, then I've done my job.

Andrew-Lee Potts

I love doing heightened reality stuff, and having fun with the characters I play, especially in a kind of darker way, which I don't get to do in 'Primeval' at all.

I loved the guy. He was one of the real characters of our time. When I think about him, I smile.

Michael Medved

The message is that this (infidelity) is different because the characters are gay and just being true to themselves. If that's the standard of one's behavior, then anything is excusable.

Their sexual knowledge, attitudes, behaviors are all shaped in part by the characters in stories that television conveys.

Robert Webb

The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men.

Sharlto Copley

I'm not particularly fond of playing villains. I do want to be a working actor, and I've had to look at what was offered to me, what roles I could get, and what I could do with them. Even though I'm not drawn to putting those kinds of darker characters out there, I think it's an interesting challenge.

I'm gonna miss the characters on this team. You (media) guys don't see it, but we've got some real comedians. I'm gonna miss 'em all, from top to bottom.

Michael Sheen

The first thing, when I read the script, is that I need to care about what happens and feel compelled by the story and engaged by the characters. It needs to resonate with me, even if what the characters are going through is not something that I have experienced in my life. I have to feel like it has some sort of meaning to me.

Mavis Gallant

The first flash of fiction arrives without words. It consists of a fixed image like a slide or closer still a freeze frame showing characters in a simple situation....

Lily Tomlin

The film is very 'Nashville'-like in the sense that there are all of these characters who intermingle because we're on the same radio show,

Jill McCorkle

The first draft is all about freedom, and if loyalty is in question, it is only my loyalty to the characters and situations on the page. All the worries about where the material may have sprung from or what so-and-so might think can be dealt with later.

Tilly Bagshawe

. . . the characters were simply people I imagined that were interesting to me.

The characters that populate my books are global nomads in their own right, keeping multiple homes around the world and constantly jet-setting to new places.

Robert Niro

The characters that I play are real. They are real so they have as much right to be portrayed as any other characters.

Geoff Johns

The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses the line and the villain who sometimes doesn't are just much more interesting.

The characters make fools of themselves repeatedly, and show how crazy we all act when we try to pursue eternal youth.

The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan fiction with my characters.

The guy in charge of the main characters is generally going to be a person of color.

The important part of the show is the repetitive nature of the dialogue of the two characters - how they make the same mistakes day after day.

You know, that kind of coldness, you know. And I think, yeah, I think that definitely helped. The female characters on the show, you can see some of them wanting to know what makes him tick. And I guess that translates into some of the fans outside. You know?

David Cronenberg

You could say it's a Hollywood film because the characters are agents, actors and managers, but it is not a satire like The Player.

Angelina Jolie

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren't characters I looked up to and identified with.

Jon Favreau

The key to writing real characters is not to treat everybody like a real person and give everybody a good side and a bad.

These are characters they know and love, and you want to make sure to be true to those characters.

Robert Thompson

These kinds of characters are so satisfying to male viewers because culture has told them to be powerful and effective and to get things done, and at the same time they're living, operating and working in places that are constantly defying that.

Goran Visnjic

You want to have somebody like Elektra on your side, and it's one of the characters who is helping storytelling in the story also.

Jill McCorkle

You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story - that some quality speaks to the individual.