Quotes About Characters

You can call us what you want, but at the end of the day, we're entertainers.

I'm very proud of the fact that the women on 'The Americans' are written to be equally complex as the men.

I keep telling you, you don't pay enough attention to the minor characters. A novel should be like a street full of strangers, where no more than two or three people are known to us in depth.

I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.

Reader, what are you doing? Aren't you going to resist? Aren't you going to escape? Ah, you are participating.... Ah, you fling yourself into it, too.... You're the absolute protagonist of this book, very well; but do you believe that gives you the right to have carnal relations with all the female characters? Like this, without any preparation..?

I've got to say, I don't think there's winking at all in the original Star Wars. What I feel is everyone is playing it a hundred percent legitimately. What I think is happening is these characters are funny. Even Mark Hamill, when you really think about what he has to do, who he has to play in that movie, the scenes early on when he's dealing with R2 and 3PO, I think he is underrated in terms of his playing a straight man to these droids.

There were things about these characters that sucked me in, regardless of and despite their being on Star Trek.

One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.

You know why writers are always the savvy and sexy characters in novels and movies? It's because all novels and movies are written by writers.

All of the negativity and unsavory characters in this environment only serve to make the exceptions shine all the more brightly.

I don't mind what the role is at all I just want to play cool characters.

More advice: if your message is to be printed, use high-quality paper to maximize the contrast between characters and their background. If you use color, you are more likely to be believed if your text is printed in bright blue or red than in middling shades of green, yellow, or pale blue.

In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities.

As a viewer, I care about people, I care about characters, I care about perspective.

I think art, especially literature, has the particular power to immerse the viewer or reader into another world. This is especially powerful in literature, when a reader lives the experience of the characters. So if the characters are human and real enough, then readers will feel empathy for them.

I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas.

Without sounding defensive, I would say that sometimes TV critics assume that after a few episodes the writers 'finally understand the characters,' and as a writer I often feel that what really has happened is that the viewer has gotten to know the characters. It's a natural process.

The idea of viewers getting invested in a series is that you're getting invested in the reality of these characters' lives that, in fact, don't have an ending.

As an actress, I realize that viewers are entitled to have whatever feelings they want about the characters they watch.

The success of 'Rome' was in making the history accessible and giving viewers everyman characters through which they can connect to historical figures. It stops the story from being too remote.

A lot of entertainment, and especially in a half-hour format, can be all jokes, all the time. And some of those jokes can be really, really funny, but what I respond to, as a viewers, is identification or caring about the characters.

A TV show has to be a certain length and, you know, you have expectations from the viewers. You know, you want to see the characters again, or you want to see certain dynamics between the characters or certain kinds of storylines. And you kind of figure out how to best fit what you want to say into that format.

After all, what is cinema? It is an interaction, a discussion that throws up questions and provides some solutions. The solutions might look simple, impractical or too fictionalised. But one must realise that viewers empathise with certain characters because they strike a chord with the viewers' needs and frame of mind.