Quotes About Characters

One night Shay heard the quiet murmur of his voice, punctuated by Olivia's giggles. She shuffled across the living room and listened around the corner. He was reading aloud to her, imitating each character's voice. Shay listened to his falsetto, a grin tugging her lips at the incongruity of a cowboy reading The Princess Diaries.

It's not what's happened or what's about to happen; what's important is the sense of emotional uncertainty between the characters and the delicacy of the mutual trust being established.

If there's true emotional content in a situation between characters, all you do is reveal it.

I feel like a lot of characters on TV don't have the time to tell that many aspects of a character's story and personality.

Audiences are just like us as writers - we grow attached to characters. In certain ways you don't want them to change.

I have been approached twice before for Mahadev.' But they were for some other characters. This was the third time. I didn't want to say no because being an Indian we are all attached to Ramayan and Mahabharat and it is an honor for me to play Sita on screen.

You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.

I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.

I always have to find things that I relate to and understand in the characters that I play; otherwise, it won't feel that authentic.

Most authors would love to see their characters made for the screen, especially one that's quite colourful.

I'm really proud of the characters I've been able to play. Certainly, playing the character on 'CSI' as Dr. Sherman Hawkes is a wonderful stereotype-busting role.

I believe showing various characters is my job and I try to take as many challenges as possible in my dramas and films.

I watch a lot of TV dramas.

For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.

You never know in 'Riverdale' who's going to drop off next.

That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

A lot of people die in my movies. So if you're in a few of my movies, you have a good chance of dying!

The kind of love and appreciation that I get each day is because of the characters I play on TV.

I don't try to make actors play crazy characters. I like where there's a certain element of who they are and truth to their performances.

What's special with 'Corrie' is that they have the comedy element, women are funny as well - they might do the emotional stuff, they might do the drama, but they're really funny too.

I'm understanding theatre a bit more. I've learned that you go over and over stuff. There's a big element of back-story: where have the characters been before, where have they come from?

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

Audiences want to feel represented, want to be able to empathize with the characters and the stories they are seeing on the screen.

I think I try to look at all my films and break them down because, at the end of the day, it's about creating characters that you like.