Characters Quotes

• I don't think there is a need of the categorization 'woman writing'. I think in some sense writers lost their gender when they walk into the world of words; I believe that writers ought to be able to slip under the skins of both men and women. Only then will the writing and the characters have credibility and strength.

  

  Anita Nair
  • Writing
  • Strength
  • Credibility

• I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Different genres

• I'm fortunate in that I'm what you call a utility player, in that I can take a scene, if there's five or six minor characters in a scene, that need voice and personality and I can supply those characters.

  

  Bob Bergen
  • Player
  • Personality
  • Scene

• Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

  

  Virginie Fernandez
  • Play
  • Characters
  • Realistic

• I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Novels
  • Readers
  • Universal

• I'm portraying out characters, I'm portraying femme characters, characters that are really outside of the box. I never thought I would get that opportunity to portray those characters at all, much less have a career that I have.

  

  Nico Santos
  • Opportunity
  • Thought
  • Would

• Shows like 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends,' they have, like, one or two damn characters throughout the whole series that are minorities.

  

  Esai Morales
  • Friends
  • Characters
  • Minorities

• It is always the men we won't allow to make love to us, who take our characters away.

  

  Ellen Buckingham Mathews
  • His Love
  • Spineless
  • Love Rules

• There's a ton of potential to do something absolutely loopy with a world that you create and characters that you are literally surgically constructing.

  

  Eric Holmes
  • Create
  • Characters

• I think it's important that a director be able to know his characters inside and out.

  

  George Tillman, Jr.
  • Know
  • Characters
  • Director

• The least glimmering or shade of acting, in man or woman, is a sure motive of envy in the rest; and, if their malice can't persuade the town's-people into a dislike of their performance, they'll cruelly endeavor to taint their characters.

  

  Charlotte Charke
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Envy

• I like going back in time and writing historical fantasy. I use some real historical characters as a background to give depth to the fantasy. And I throw my fictional characters into the midst of this, and, so far, it has turned out interesting.

  

  Judith Tarr
  • Characters
  • Fantasy
  • Background

• I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.

  

  Eric Jerome Dickey
  • Imagination
  • Illusion
  • Good Story

• It's fun to play characters in songs. I can just cheat a little bit... be this person for just a small amount of time and just help vent that idea.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Help
  • Fun
  • Songs

• I really liked the idea of playing - I won't say the underdog - but characters who have a lot of conflict.

  

  Joshua Henry
  • Playing
  • Characters
  • Conflict

• It's nuts that we've reached a situation where representing female characters - let alone minorities - is considered "social responsibility" and not, you know, depicting half the world's population. I often feel like the gaming audience is so much more diverse than the characters represented in the games that they play.

  

  Neil Druckmann
  • Audience
  • Diverse
  • Gaming

• My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Critics
  • Aids
  • Safe Sex

• If Christ lives in us, controlling our personalities, we will leave glorious marks on the lives we touch. Not because of our lovely characters, but because of his.

  

  Eugenia Price
  • Christ
  • Touch
  • Personalities

• All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well.

  

  Stephenie Meyer
  • Real
  • Write
  • Readers

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

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Strong
  • Temptation
  • Resist

• It's the primordial characters of the Star Wars. It's the beautiful princess and the callow youth and the smartass that I played and the wise old warrior that Alec Guinness played. And it was a fairy tale. It was a fairy tale.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Warrior
  • Princess
  • Star Wars

• I wish I could breathe a Nabokovian air. I wish I could have the Olympian freedom of sensibility that disdains, in his autobiography, to give the Russian Revolution more than a passing mention, as if such common events did not have the power to wreak fundamental changes in his own life, or as if it were vulgar, tactless, to dwell on something so brutishly, so crudely collective. I wish I could define myself -a s Nabokov defines both himself and his characters - by the telling detail, as preference for months over lozenges, an awkwardness at cricket, a tendency to lose floes or umbrellas. I wish I could live in a world of prismatic reflections, carefully distinguished colours of sunsets and English scarves, synthetic repetitions and reiterative surprises - a world in which even a reddened nostril can be rendered as a delicious hue rather than a symptom of a discomfiting common cold. I wish I could attain such a world because in part that is our most real, and most loved world - the world of utterly individual sensibility, untrampled by history, or horrid intrusions of social circumstance. Oh ye, I think the Nabokovian world is lighted, lightened, and enlightened by the most precise affection. Such affection is unsentimental because it is free and because it attaches to free objects. It can notice what is adorable (or odious, for that matter), rather than what is formed and deformed by larger forces. Characters, in Nabokov's fiction, being perfectly themselves, attain the graced amorality of aesthetic objects.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Freedom
  • Changes
  • Breathe

• It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

  

  Amanda Seyfried
  • Play
  • Characters
  • Connect

• I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor get to be the hero?

  

  Esai Morales
  • Film
  • Hero
  • Actor

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