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Quotes About Characters

I'm never lonely when I'm writing, because you live with the characters that are so alive in your mind. And you really see them and know them and get to be friends with them.
~ Julie Andrews
I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.
~ Julie Bowen
Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.
~ Julie Bowen
Where to start, Fitger thought. The department was a funhouse of dysfunctional characters. Academia was, traditionally, a refuge for the poorly socialized and the obsessive; but English, at Payne, had a higher percentage of crackpots than most.
~ Julie Schumacher
ViaÈ›a noastr? e o carte care se scrie singur?. Noi suntem niÈ™te personaje de roman care nu înÈ›eleg întotdeauna prea bine ce vrea autorul.
~ Julien Green
I enter the world called real as one enters a mist. Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. I don't want to go on playing in a world where everyone cheats. Where everyone cheats - not only men and women, but sometimes even God.
~ Julien Green
Notre vie est un livre qui s'écrit tout seul. Nous sommes des personnages de roman qui ne comprennent pas toujours bien ce que veut l'auteur.
~ Julien Green
I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.
~ Juliette Binoche
I believe it's incredibly important to write against [racial] stereotypes. If we give in and make sure that all black women characters are asexual, gentle, and kind we wind up with another set of stereotypes.
~ Justine Larbalestier
Do not mistake self-confidence for pride. Pride is an excessive view of one's self without regard for others while self-confidence is the belief one has in themselves. - On the characters in Pride and Prejudice which Kailin Gow has adapted and is directing as a film.
~ Kailin Gow
The Bible had 20, 30, 40, 50 characters in it. You don't think that I would be one of the characters of today's modern Bible?
~ Kanye West
Intimacy between humans need not be relegated to independent film. Real characters can exist no matter what the scale of a movie is.
~ Colin Trevorrow
I like to believe that intimate moments between characters don't need to be relegated to independent films.
~ Colin Trevorrow
I play characters that are pretty; I play characters that are sort of intimidating and confident, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm that.
~ Nikki Reed
All of the 'X-Men' characters really intrigue me. Wolverine is my favorite character.
~ Juliana Harkavy
Human darkness fascinates me; I find it intriguing. And there are few female characters who are explored in this light.
~ Leila Slimani
A favorite film? The first 'Ice Age' and the first 'Despicable Me.' They're the films that have introduced me to characters that I still feel extremely bonded with.
~ Chris Meledandri
Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.
~ Walter Jon Williams
I have the power to write these books where I invent characters that I really like, and it gets to come out the way they want it to come out, and I get to make it happen.
~ Ruth Glick
I was always inventing characters and making up stories.
~ Suzanne Vega
Inventing characters is extraordinary: proper authors say so often that characters 'just appear' and that does happen. These people keep leaping out and saying, why don't you write about me?
~ Sheila Hancock
In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it's the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it's done.
~ Florence Pugh
The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get scared. You have to invest yourself in these characters.
~ Taissa Farmiga