Character Quotes
-
Comedy is all about the character. When you're too focused on the gags, the character suffers, and you don't get the laugh. Comedy has to come from the character.
Brett Gelman
-
I look at all of world mythology and folklore as my toy to play with. There are just so many characters and creatures there I want to put on paper. It's a really exciting thing for me to take material that I really love and put a new coat of paint on it and present it to this audience. And I don't have to make up any of the characters. I can just pull a book of mythology off the shelf and say, "I'll use this guy." I also hate making up names for fantasy characters. I'll just flip through these books and say, "Wow, this is way crazier than anything I could make up".
Mike Mignola
-
Ultimately, you change the culture in Washington only one way, and it's one election at a time, with the character of the people you send.
Paul Sadler
-
Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life.
Michael Berryman
-
The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It's the minute I'm putting a judgment on something.
Heather Matarazzo
-
From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?
Francis Chan
-
I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.
David Bowie
-
On Flash, I thought of myself as a spice character; come in, do a little dance, and I go.
Wentworth Miller
-
I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.
Dolly Parton
-
That's what character is, it's in the trying.
Eric Taylor
-
A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work through character, so helping the reader to feel close to fictional characters is the gate through which we have to usher the reader.
Caryl Phillips
-
I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.
Harry Hamlin
-
It's probably true that you're forging your own character during every minute of every day, with every decision you make, but there are some moments in which this is more clear than in others.
Brian Morton
-
Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
Bernard Crick
-
I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters and conversations which do not exit is no way for a grown man to behave.
Sebastian Horsley
-
It's not that I wrote those details, but photos can give you the confidence that you have a real feel for the landscape. Then you can invent with a solid kind of faith, and recreate a feel and flavor of the time, and, one hopes, a tonality, a sense of that time having been lived by those characters.
Chang-Rae Lee
-
The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.
Ezra Miller
-
When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last sentence in mind. But, no book I've ever written has ever ended the way I thought it would. Characters disappear, others come forward. Once you start writing, everything changes.
Paul Auster
