Characters Quotes
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It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.
Rick Riordan -
I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.
Callie Khouri
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I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters.
J. R. Bourne -
[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 -
One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian is someone who can stand up in front of an audience and make you laugh. I've never done stand-up and I never will. I'm a comic actor. My comedy comes through my characters.
Eugene Levy -
The 'DuckTales' ensemble is clearly critical. There's the core set of characters - Scrooge, Webby, Launchpad, Huey, Dewey and Louie... Plus there's Gyro and Duckworth and Mrs. Beakley and so on. The cast is huge.
Warren Spector -
I'm about my characters.
Abel Ferrara -
For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
Zoe Kravitz
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The problem I have these days is that women are often cast in a role - as a police officer, for example - and then are invariably perceived by the other characters as succeeding in a man's job, as if they're doing it in spite of being women.
Kathy Bates -
I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
Irvine Welsh -
Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
Patrick deWitt -
I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.
Tatiana Maslany -
I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.
Hank Azaria -
If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.
Gabriella Wilde
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I don't judge my characters.
Orhan Pamuk -
I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.
Jack Kirby -
Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in fiction.
Karin Slaughter -
Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.
Sam Worthington -
All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.
Adhir Kalyan -
Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.
Edwidge Danticat
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
Victoria Hanley -
Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.
D. J. Cotrona -
One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
Kate Grenville -
I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.
Madchen Amick