Character Quotes
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I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the same time keeping things fresh and grow the character.
Martha Plimpton
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Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.
Flannery O'Connor
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I think people make a really big deal that I'm this big character-issue guy, and I've got red flags. I'm not.
Austin Seferian-Jenkins
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I can write anywhere. I made up the names of the characters on a sick bag while I was on an airplane. I told this to a group of kids and a boy said, "Ah, no, that's disgusting." And I said, "Well, I hadn't used the sick bag."
Joanne Rowling
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I don't write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it's the characters, but I know that I would keep writing even if no one ever published me again, even if no one ever read me again.
Ursula Hegi
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You never want to play too vampiric or generically evil, so you look for emotions or character traits that you can relate to.
Joseph Morgan
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We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
Epictetus
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One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.
Kofi Annan
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I believe that every character I create is in their own film, that happens to overlap with the main film. There are complete and real characters, even though we only spend only a little time with them. In the approach to what those entities are, that always appeals to an actor. What are they, since they are going to embody this character?
Ana Lily Amirpour
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While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.
George Combe
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So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.
Blake Lively
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Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.
Mel Gibson
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Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them.
Jerome Kern
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A novel I read when I was about 17 or 18 - 'The World According to Garp,' by John Irving - really made me want to become a writer. The character of Garp is a novelist, and at the time, the whole lifestyle of being a writer was hugely appealing to me.
John Niven
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I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint.
George Grey
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It's always difficult to say goodbye, especially when one has spent a long time - literally years, in the case of a series - inside a character or two, suffering and celebrating with them.
Lilith Saintcrow
