Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jewel Staite

The sci-fi genre just happens to have a lot of really great characters for women.

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.

Jennifer Haigh

I spent some time, six months or so, ruminating about the characters before I sat down to write 'Faith'.

Jane Green

I show the people I love that I love them by gathering them in my kitchen and feeding them, so no surprise that most of my characters do the same thing.

Andrew-Lee Potts

I've been lucky enough to play many different roles from darker characters to family orientated shows to comedy.

Bill Clinton

it would have been impossible for characters to go to parties and not meet Clinton.

Jesse Plemons

It would drive me crazy if I picked roles with the goal of being a leading man. You never know what you're getting into when you sign onto a project, and more times than not, the characters that are close to the leading man are more interesting and more fun to play.

Joel Kinnaman

The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters I play.

The woeful tales of 'Super Mario Bros.' and 'Street Fighter' have taught studios that merely slapping a name to a movie is not enough to bring in the fans of the franchise. Also, the way games now unfold their stories more parallels that of a movie, with characters and plot points actually meaning as much as a high score.

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.

You really start to see some of the life choices the characters are starting to make.

Jane Goldman

You need to be invested in what happens. The characters are your conduit to the story. Many modern horror films are fun but not frightening because one has not connected with the characters.

Kim Fields

Acting is my first love. There are still so many characters inside of me that are waiting to come out.

Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately.

Kathryn Harrison

I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me.

Thayer David

I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy.

Deborah Moggach

Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What they were like at school. What shoes they wear. Spend days - weeks, months - being them until they thicken up and start to breathe.

Jojo Moyes

Don't set pen to paper until you know your main characters inside out. Create files detailing their appearances, likes, dislikes, and personal background. You may not use all the information, but it is a crucial step in planning your story.

Early on, (Rowling) created characters you can relate to.

Eric McCormack

First of all, nobody wants to see sitcom characters have sex. I didn't even want to see the Sex and the City girls have sex. This is not why I watch a comedy." ()

Antonya Nelson

I'm a little hesitant to make my characters sentimental or to risk having the work labeled sentimental. It's something that I resist as a reader, and I don't resist it in life. I'm not an unmoved person by any stretch, but I think I don't want, I guess, to indulge those kinds of things sometimes in fiction. I can't tell you why exactly.

Antonya Nelson

I like the way that psychological extremity can illuminate more 'normal' characters by forcing a comparison.

Gillian Anderson

To re-live these characters would be wonderful, because I know when the show ends it will be huge mourning process.