Quotes of: Female-character Keyword

Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.

Shannon L. Alder

I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.

Selma Blair

You won't ever see me being totally sexy on 'Rookie Blue.' It's not right for the character, anyway.

Missy Peregrym

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

Meryl Streep

I broke into acting doing Latino roles. I played a Latino casanova in 'The Winner' and a Latino character on 'Hannah Montana.'

Michael Steger

I'm stunned that people keep asking me to play characters I didn't expect to play.

Mark Williams

Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why.

Mia Wasikowska

I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.

Ming-Na Wen

I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

Malala Yousafzai

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

Mo Yan

I am opposed to any state with an ethnic character, not only to Israel.

Norman Finkelstein

I'll write a character with a certain actor in mind, but then once I start casting, I have to forget about who I pictured.

Nicole Holofcener

There are sometimes concerns about being respectful with a gay character, and you either end up with a tiptoeing quality or an all-out cliche.

Casey Wilson

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.

Elizabeth Moon

You go into the Lions camp with preconceived ideas about players and teams and then find guys are actually very different, and the beauty of the Lions is that all those characters are moulded into it. I find that exciting.

Brian O'Driscoll

Since I came at 'Godot' from a God-based frame of mind, it didn't strike me as absurdist. It struck me as characters waiting for proof of God's existence.

Michael Schultz

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

Mark Haddon

Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you more freedom because it makes it less about yourself.

Penelope Cruz

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.

Charles Babbage

I have such respect for guest actors. They don't know all the characters as deeply as the regulars, and the cast isn't your family, so you have more at stake.

Brenda Strong