Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rachel Weisz

I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.

Henry Ian Cusick

'Not Another Happy Ending' is a romantic comedy starring Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber. It is about these two characters and their relationships.

Matthew Ashford

The fact that the writers and producers have give us the opportunity to mold these characters into something that is not everyday has been a pleasure.

Candace Bushnell

What I tried to do with the characters is put them in the same situation that powerful and successful men often find themselves, ... I'm fascinated by what it's like to be a woman in one of those powerful positions because there is really no road map about how you're supposed to behave. Just as society needs to re-evaluate our ideas about femininity and what women can do, we as women need to re-evaluate our ideas about it too.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.

Orison Swett Marden

Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.

Zach Woods

I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.

Vicky McClure

When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.

You have some frame of reference with the characters that actually lived the history. And when they intermingle with the fictional characters, it really places you in the time period.

George Lois

'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 1960s bundled up nicely to convince consumers that the sort of morally repugnant behavior exhibited by its characters - with one-night-stands and excessive consumption of Cutty Sark and Lucky Strikes - is glamorous and 'vintage.'

Stephnie Weir

Many people have done really well pulling their characters out; I think 'Wayne's World' really hit the mark.

Guy Ritchie

So It's really about characters and sub cultures again. About gypsies and things that I couldn't squeeze in the last one, I stuck in on this one.

Kurt Busiek

That's the way it happens - some characters you set out to use, some are happy accidents. As long as it works, it doesn't really matter how you got them.

Issa Rae

Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to relate to what he or she is going through or what he or she is thinking.

Marc Guggenheim

Obviously, I love superheroes; I love comic book characters, but I... I guess I've had a lifelong affection for comics, and while I love the characters so much, I also love the medium.

Susanna Clarke

Nothing, I find, has prepared me for the sight of my own characters walking about. A playwright or screenwriter must expect it; a novelist doesn't and naturally concludes that she has gone mad.

One thing I think is that comics are really good at expressing emotion. I think there's a way that comics characters can be drawn not-realistically, but the emotional reality is still very sincere. So you can have these exaggerations that express inner emotion through physical appearance.

Lynn Coady

Never use dogs to symbolize anything. That is ridiculous. Always ensure that any dogs are just dogs; i.e., characters in the story who happen to be dogs.

Marie Lu

On the one hand, I'm so relieved that I've actually managed to finish my very first series and that I've been able to see my characters through to the end of their journeys. On the other hand, I feel like how parents must feel when they send their kid off to college. It's a bittersweet mix.

Rupert Grint

But we knew the characters pretty well because we were all big fans of the books.

Dana Williams

Because they are so customizable, you can make them into whatever you want them to be, and I want them to be characters in my story. They usually feed my creativity. I like having the characters so that I can hold them and see them.

I managed to get the four most polite children ever and they blushed through most of the rehearsals. At first, they were very uncomfortable with it and whispered the words. But, they got used to it because all of their characters use swear words.

I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'

Melissa McCarthy

More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.

John Searles

My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.

Maria Semple

My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world. I always had a mind for characters and dialogue, and my head was filled with that stuff, so it seemed like a good place to start.

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.

Joel Edgerton

If, at the end of the day, I can look back and see pictures of all the characters I've played, and there's a smorgasbord of weirdos and interesting, odd, different characters, I'd be so happy.

Jojo Moyes

If the characters are compelling, readers will follow anywhere.

Julie Kenner

If the characters are acting true to themselves, then that chemistry and suspense will flow.

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.