Characters Quotes
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Well, I don't think characters change. I think they become more revealed. I don't think you really can change a character on a show.
Lisa Edelstein
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I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
Irrfan Khan
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
Iain Banks
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I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.
A. S. Byatt
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An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
W. E. B. Griffin
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All the characters of the Passion agree to the year 34; and that is the only year to which they all agree.
Isaac Newton
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I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.
Kate Winslet
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Well, for one, I don't judge my characters.
Taraji P. Henson
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I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.
Cate Blanchett
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For me, 'Mommy' was about developing very humane characters that would be very credible and endearing and work onscreen.
Xavier Dolan
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When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.
Omar Dorsey
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
Taylor Sheridan
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You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.
Rachel McAdams
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I've always played characters that were younger than myself.
Carey Mulligan
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I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.
Dan Scanlon
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I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.
A. S. Byatt
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I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
Vincent Cassel
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Therefore only an utterly senseless person can fail to know that our characters are the result of our conduct.
Aristotle
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Happiness, that's obviously different for everybody, but what I call my joy, the thing that makes me feel incredibly satiated, is my family, and then I get to go and play out all of my ideas and feelings through all these different characters.
Nicole Kidman
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My characters are not plastic.
Karen Kingsbury
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I always wanted to live the lives of different people, portray characters that are different from me. But I could have done that in front of a mirror, also, I didn't need to do films for that. At the end of the day, it's this fame, recognition, popularity, the love and appreciation you get from your audience that drives you.
Vidya Balan
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I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.
Tea Obreht
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A lot of the characters I play on Japanese shows are actually acted in Japan by women. I don't know what that says about me.
Yuri Lowenthal
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As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.
Karin Slaughter