Quotes About Characters

If I just sit here, what am I going to do? I don't have a trade. I don't teach or anything. I just love to make up characters and gradually build a story around them.

Meeting everyone you wanted to know in the small surf industry, I saw how the surf trade was made up of characters that not only surfed, but were able to develop a business out of their relationship with their product and the ocean.

I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.

Perhaps not unusually for a popular film produced over three decades ago, there have been a dizzying parade of corporate characters trading rights to 'This Is Spinal Tap' through the years. Yet our requests for timely statements of the film's income have been met with a series of slammed doors.

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.

The most crucial thing is to learn the craft: how to string sentences together, how to make your dialogue sound like real people, how to properly pace a story, how to develop interesting characters.

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

I love to do movies. That's something that I find so much joy in, in being able to travel around and play new characters.

I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.

You can't throw a rock without a comic book character falling out of a tree.

Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth.

Livia, on the other hand, actively preferred literary characters to real-life acquaintances: Tom Sawyer stayed forever young, Viola always retained her spunk, and Mr. Darcy could never turn out to be a hypocrite who was also disappointing in bed.

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my thoughts, I start to look for characters capable of representing it.

Writing novels means being plural, being divided among your creatures and suffering with them.

I've always been drawn to stories and characters facing some sort of struggle against forces beyond our control, be it love, loss, betrayal.

I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters.

I've always been attracted to the characters that I didn't know anything about. If you do anything in life with passion and love, then it's worth trying.

I love doing impersonations of people.

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.

I love the process of auditioning and having the chance to play a million different characters in one week - it's great.