Characters Quotes
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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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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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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've always been attracted to characters that were interesting to me, and different.
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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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As an actor, you always want to root for your characters.
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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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I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.
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When I was younger I was much more polemical and didactic, much less trusting. Inherently my own vision of the world would weave its way through the characters. Also, my concerns are changing. What happens is you write a few plays and get boxed into some idea of what your concerns are and what you're supposed to be writing about.
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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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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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The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.
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Happiness, sadness, being mean and being nice. They're all very close to one another. My goal in my career is to do movies that are both... I hate when people say is it a comedy or a drama? My favorite movies are kind of both. Just like life, one day you're not crying all day, one day you're not laughing all day. I like to play characters that have that kind of balance, too.
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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 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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Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.
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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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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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I think people are really starting to rebel against that. And I think there's going to be more and more gray areas. Hopefully that means we'll see more stories with characters that could be interchangeable with men.
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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'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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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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My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.
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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.
