Quotes About Characters

Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go on without him.

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

I had always functioned with dignity, wanting to appear intelligent, macho, never vulnerable or insecure. But now I realize that... a part of these comic characters is a fundamental part of me too.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

The audience in the country has evolved, and for them, it is about real characters.

I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.

All the characters in 'Rang Rasiya' are inspired from the Shakespearean drama 'Othello.' This is exactly what interested me to take up this role.

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.

I never, never lend any of my own clothes for parts any more because you lose your clothes; they become the characters' clothes, and you can never wear them again.

I've been thinking if 'GoT' would lend itself easily to an MMORPG. I mean, it certainly has the background and incredible storylines for it, along with some pretty huge characters to hinge the story around.

Every one of his characters has their own idea, their own thing they want to express. Dostoevsky just lets them do it.

Most of the shows that are offered to me have characters that are in the relatable space, mostly slice-of-life and light-hearted shows.

I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that.

We can list a bunch of actors who have embodied characters that aren't their nationalities, and I think that's the beauty of acting.

On 'Supergirl,' there are huge characters with huge mythologies behind them. What's important is that you don't lock yourself into something.

You have to follow the logic of your characters while you're writing.

When you begin a play, you're going to have to spend a lot of time with those characters, so those characters are going to have to be rich enough that you want to take a very long journey with them. That's how I begin thinking about what I want to write about and who I want to write about.

I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.

You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.

Through these years, I have attempted to create magical moments between my characters because, be it television or films, life is about the moments we create while living through it.

I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.

Just doing my job," he replied, and grinned again. Why should Tank suddenly think of a play, with one of the characters complaining that another character "smiled too much"? Curious, he watched the man climb into a nice, late-model car and drive off. Why wasn't he in a company truck, like most technicians drove?