Characters Quotes
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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 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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I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had.
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In terms of playing like a straight leading man type thing, I feel like all these guys are kind of not necessarily leading men but straight kind of characters. Even though they may seem bizarre or strange, I feel like I think everybody's nuts. I mean, I really do. And the weirdest thing in the world is to see some guy who is just super earnest.
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Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.
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I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.
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So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more fun.
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As an actor, you always want to root for your characters.
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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 think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.
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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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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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Early on, I got some criticism from other gay writers and queer theorists for being too 'assimilationist,' probably because my characters are outsiders, even in the gay world.
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The very term "turning pages" suggests nonstop action. But I am all about character and beautiful writing. I eat that up like popcorn. Whether a book is action-packed or not, all I need are well-written prose and quirky, fabulous characters to keep me going.
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Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.
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Something happened in 1997 that changed the whole industry, at least for the next five, six, or seven years. It wasn't about the 24-inch arms and the cartoon characters anymore. It was about the wrestling and what we were doing in the ring physically.
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My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.
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I never want to write something until I know every scene in the movie. I don't want someone hiring me and then me not being able to write it. Which is always a fear. So I like to figure it out, know all the characters, and know almost every scene in the movie before I start writing.
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Anchorman' is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite characters of all time. It's my 'Gone With the Wind.
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You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.
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I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.
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I'm an actor, and I want to play flawed characters, and I'm a writer that wants to write flawed characters, trying to let something out and hoping people relate through that or have fun experiencing the story.
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When you know psychologically what characters are feeling, then that plays out on how you dress a lot of times.
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I am not an analytical writer. Once I flesh out my characters and decide on the elements of my plot, the story unfolds in my head almost as though it was a movie reel.
