Characters Quotes

• People buy a game because they like the game and they want to play the game. And there are certain characters in games that people like, obviously. I don't know if a certain character's voice or lack of a certain character's voice can cause somebody to buy or not buy a game.

  

  Michael Gough
  • People
  • Game
  • Certain

• I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability. I don't know why. I know I can play these roles, but they're certainly not the only roles I can play.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Play
  • Characters
  • Roles

• Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only visualized more clearly than any other figures in imaginative literature... He was in the rank in which we set Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe.

  

  Edwin Muir
  • Literature
  • Conscious
  • Rank

• Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.

  

  Elihu Burritt
  • Responsibility
  • Existence
  • Characters

• ... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

  

  Plato
  • Characters
  • Discovery
  • Souls

• Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • History
  • Suffering
  • Dissonances

• The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.

  

  George V. Higgins
  • Story
  • Characters
  • Telling

• Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Strong
  • Temptation
  • Resist

• Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I'm not an actor who can just play the kid.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Age
  • Play
  • Actor

• In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet - with all my favorite elements of literature: a sense of flow, of propulsion, of wanting to read every sentence.

  

  Michael Finkel
  • Writing
  • Literature
  • Favorite

• I use the Net for a lot of things besides e-mailing. I involve myself in chats with people as part of my research for characters.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Characters
  • Research
  • Emailing

• Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

  

  Susannah York
  • Writing
  • Acting
  • Escape

• Only the Strong is a lushly atmospheric and passionately written piece of work, bursting with colorful characters that shine on every page.

  

  Bernice L. McFadden
  • Work
  • Characters
  • Atmospheric

• I don't know if make a conscious effort to vary the characters and subjects that I write about, but I do find myself keeping track of ideas that come along, as probably most writers do, and whatever seems most interesting to me when I flip through my notes before I begin a new story is usually what I will try to write about next.

  

  Christine Sneed
  • Effort
  • Write
  • Make

• I think every film I make that puts characters in jeopardy is me purging my own fears, sadly only to re-engage with them shortly after the release of the picture. I'll never make enough films to purge them all.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Film
  • Characters
  • Jeopardy

• It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Architecture
  • Creation
  • Human Power

• I'm not sure if we're going to or not because what happens is I'd always love to see certain characters back, there's so many. Some of it has to do with, if we want them back, are they available and the other aspect is do they fit with the storyline we're telling.

  

  Aaron Korsh
  • Characters
  • Back
  • Storyline

• Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges and do new things.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Challenges
  • Characters
  • Treadmill

• I'm basically drawn to defeated, injured, hurt, barely walking characters.

  

  Steven Shainberg
  • Hurt
  • Characters
  • Drawn

• I'm happy to try on as many characters as I can.

  

  Simon Helberg
  • Happy
  • Try
  • Characters

• Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.

  

  Melissa Ordway
  • Different
  • Transform
  • Modeling

• At the end of the day, stand-up comedy is like acting when the audience are the other characters that I'm acting with.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • Audience
  • Characters
  • Stand-up comedy

• From a purely craft standpoint, a simple character has a single motivation, while complex characters have two or three or more motivations, at least one of which is in direct conflict with another.

  

  Nick Petrie
  • motivation
  • Characters
  • Conflict

• Just the fact that there's motion and sound, took me a long time on Walking Dead to get used to the fact that in television, characters don't have to say things. In comics, people have to say I feel this way, or I want to do this, and you can do so much with gesture and movement and facial expressions that you can do sometimes facial expression stuff in comics, but you can do so more if somebody can move around without actually speaking. That leads to a different style of writing between the two mediums.

  

  Chris Black
  • Different
  • Style
  • Television

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