Hayley Atwell Quotes
I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.
Hayley Atwell
Quotes to Explore
I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters.
J. R. Bourne
You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.
Rachel McAdams
As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.
Karin Slaughter
[Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the screenplay and that's rarely something that can be remedied if it's simply not there by the time you shoot the film. Thank God we had that.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.
Lily King
Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of the future than the ancient social unit whose flexibility and strength substained human society through millenia?
Charles Handy
I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.
Henry Ward Beecher
Everything I make is with intention. I'm not very haphazard with my artist work, although I wish I was sometimes. I'm very conscious of the conversations I'm pushing about different threads and themes around landscape and characters that exist - how it's pictured, who's pictured it, who's owned it and who's been able to inhabit certain spaces. I have other interests as well. I'm really obsessed now with going to gay male dance clubs. I find those thrilling. I'm interested in what future characters can come.
Xaviera Simmons
... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.
Plato
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides
Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.
Confucius
Each of my characters comes from somewhere, and where they come from, good or bad, has a large part in forming who they are, and who they can become.
J. M. Roberts
