Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Mosley

What I say to myself is, 'I really love these characters and I want to make them as real in the world as I can,'

What impresses me about the films this year is how many seem to be about a kind of quiet strength shown by characters in situations that often seem extremely difficult if not impossible to bear.

Callie Khouri

What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.

Tim LaHaye

We've fallen in love with the characters and the people and we're dreaming about what's going to happen to them. It's really a fun experience.

Kelli O'Hara

I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge.

Kristan Higgins

A lot of people ask for sequels, but what they really want is just to know the characters are happy and safe.

I actually have a peculiar feminism that does not involve the idea that women shouldn't be sexy. Female characters written in comics have always been pretty damned sexy, and used their sexuality. And I don't have any problem with that.

Richard Masur

I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.

Gillian Anderson

I also respond very strongly to characters I have not done before ... something I can really sink my teeth into, and what's scary, and what terrifies me, because that's where I need to go.

Jesse Williams

I always find that really interesting, you know, when I get to see characters that I love in TV and film and theater around their family.

Greg Rucka

I have distinct tastes on these characters and I will fight for them.

Isaac Singer

I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions. Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.

Martin Freeman

I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.

Geoff Johns

I didn't want to take the DC universe, put it in a box, shake the box and pour it out. I wanted to take the major characters and show what they could be like if they were put on a different path.

Warren Spector

I don't even make multiplayer games much, so dealing with multiple characters is something new for me - or, rather, something I've had to recall from my days as a roleplaying adventure designer where the party was everything!

Jeff Lemire

I don't enjoy putting my characters through hell unless there's a reason. I don't use violence or anything just for shock value. They're always a means to an end.

Marie Brennan

I'd love to see more novels and short stories where the characters have their own folklore that isn't the Plot-Bearing Prophecy of Doom.

Ruth Rendell

I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds.

Lily James

I feel like, sometimes, characters that are just good and nice can seem boring or uninteresting.

E. O. Wilson

I feel sort of embarrassed I don't go to plays, but I can't keep the characters straight. I feel I should be somewhere else.

Jeff Lemire

I can't really write anything without knowing the ending. I don't know how people do that. Even with my superhero stuff, I have to know at least where I want to take the characters and what the ending of my story with them will be. I just can't structure stories or character arcs and stuff without knowing the endpoint.

Joseph Mawle

I found school quite tough, but Saturday night was movie night, and I started to empathise with the characters on screen. I started to get more involved with what these people were experiencing. Film inspired me to do better.

Audrey Meadows

Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie,he was worth his weight in gold.

Audrey Meadows

Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold.

From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional sci-fi.

Sherwood Schwartz

When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can't do that, the show will fail.

We are probably the only show in daytime that has kept characters on. We've had a number of veterans who have been on the show for over 40 years, and how they relate these veterans to their grandchildren is something I think is very real.

There are characters which you spend a lot of time with, and you get to know, and you feel that -- suddenly it's a friend somewhere. And they are nice to return to.

Jim Rash

Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.

Connie Willis

When you've written your characters into a corner, you just hand the manuscript over to your partner and make her fix it.

Li Bingbing

I often hear actors say during their interviews: 'I want to play a crazy person, a murderer, or someone who's on edge.' But that question scares me. I mean, of course there are characters I'd like to play, but I can't really say specifically who they are. It's much too hard to play a convincing normal person as it is.

Who doesn't want to draw Batman or Superman? Everyone would like to be able to draw them. I've been really lucky when it comes to the characters that I get to illustrate.

Mark Billingham

When you think of a great twist or a red herring or a way of misdirecting the reader, it is good, but you know that they are just tricks at the end of the day, and the way to keep interest is to write characters that people care about.