Quotes of: Real-character Keyword

Word count doesn't tell me when a story ends, my characters will tell me.

Love

Some days being a writer consists of telling yourself you aren't insane, your characters are.

Love

It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.

Vidya Balan

For the 'Riddick' character, I try to get as ruthless as possible, and I want to be a machine.

Vin Diesel

When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Vince Gill

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.

Vittorio Gassman

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

Vladimir Nabokov

If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.

Victoria Pratt

My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.

Wentworth Miller

All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.

William Shatner

Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.

Xun Zi

If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.

Zooey Deschanel

I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

Zoe Lister-Jones

China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.

Zhang Xin

Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.

Elena Anaya

Not everyone likes watching rushes, but it makes me work harder, and I don't feel I am watching myself, but watching the progression of the character.

Jacqueline Bisset

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

Jeffery Deaver

Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.

Josh Holloway

It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

Kirsten Dunst

I always had a lot of confidence in my work and the unique flavor I like to bring to my characters, but you know I'm not a huge dreamer.

Nick Offerman

In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.

Rachael Harris