Characters Quotes
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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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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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As an actor, you always want to root for your characters.
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My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.
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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've often tried to imagine my dream role and what that would truly mean. I'm not sure I've reached a clear picture of it yet, but I have always said the reason I wanted to act was ultimately to develop characters that evoke emotion and consequently change lives.
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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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The value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition, and characters, you know, with real distinct flavors of ways to be Christian.
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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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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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I've always been attracted to characters that were interesting to me, and different.
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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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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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Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.
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To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.
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A happy coincidence brought together in Die Brücke the really talented men whose characters and gifts, even in human terms, left them with no other choice than the profession of artist. This form of living, of dwelling and working, though peculiar for a regular human being, was not a deliberate 'epater le bourgeois', but simply a very naive and pure necessity to harmonize art and life. And it was precisely this more than anything else that so tremendously influenced the forms of present-day art. Of course, it was mostly misunderstood and totally distorted, for there the will fashioned the form and gave it meaning, whereas here the unfamiliar form is affixed to habit, like a top hat on a cow.
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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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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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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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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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As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.
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I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.
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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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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.
