Quotes of: Characters Keyword

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

Jessica Alba

'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.

J. J. Abrams

In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.

Jason Biggs

I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character.

Jim Broadbent

Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

Jorge Luis Borges

I'm someone who loves to play. I make films so I can have fun with the characters.

Jane Campion

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

Joan Cusack

I think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known.

Dav Pilkey

I'm sorry, but to ask an audience these days to invest three hours in a show requires your heroine be an understandable and fully rounded character.

Diane Paulus

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

Don Roff

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.

Danielle Steel

When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.

David Ogden Stiers

Well, if you're writing a thriller, you have to have your character in mortal jeopardy on page 1 or it's not a thriller.

Don Winslow

On the left side of a strong woman, stands a strong man; he is strengthened by her character.

Ellen J. Barrier

Thought for the day: Twitter...140 character limit...must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers...

E.A. Bucchianeri

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

Elizabeth George

When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.

Ed Helms

My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

Evanna Lynch

It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.

Beth Henley

I would do 'Superbad,' and the next offers you would get would all be crazy cop characters or crazy security guards or something.

Bill Hader

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.

Bryce Dallas Howard