Characters Quotes
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I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.
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I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work.
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What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.
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I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.
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I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters.
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For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.
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I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.
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That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on and trying to make good to dwell on characters from previous books.
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I really like getting inside the heads of female characters. I think I can do that well, and I enjoy it.
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When my husband first read a draft, he said, "You spend too much time describing the characters outfits." He was right. I removed much of the clothes talk, but quite a bit remained.
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Let's be honest, any show will live or die based on how good the characters are, how good the actors are, how complicated the relationships are, how grounded they are and how much heart they have.
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Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.
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Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You've got to - you've got the human game preserve to play off of. And it's a lot of great characters everywhere. You work off that, and then you play the rooms, and eventually you get to a point where you're playing a club that is a comedy club, with other comics.
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I never really like the characters I play. I only come to love them afterwards.
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I'm very attracted to characters who don't necessarily make it easy to be loved.
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As an actor, of course it's exciting to go and explore characters. It's exciting to explore human psychology and relationships, and that's really the drive, at the end of the day, for me.
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I've always been attracted to characters that were interesting to me, and different.
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I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had.
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When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model.
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I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.
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I love the idea of writing these huge, bombastic characters; I'll stay in the superhero world as long as I can.
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The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.
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I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.
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Someone who can search for something is happy. Searching gives a meaning to life. Nowadays it’s not so easy to find something you might be looking for. The most important thing, however, is the search itself, the way you take. It’s not so important where it leads. that’s why my characters are always looking for something, maybe only a cat, a sheep or a wife, but that is at least the beginning of a story.
