Quotes About Characters

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.

I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now.

I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.

My first four roles were all nice guys, Raggedy Man being one of them.

Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.

The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now. I will be in it, if I'm the best man for the job, but it really is about creating characters and shows.

Agent Mom is a perfect opportunity for me to do what I love... develop characters, act and take incredible stories to my fans. So yes, I can absolutely see myself cast as Agent Mom.

I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.

We only have so many faces in our pockets

My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.

I'm not sure that it's easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies.

When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.

Honestly, I don't go out of my way to see animated movies. I'm mostly influenced by.. the films I tend to like are the small films, small personal stories. With characters you can believe.

I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

Those characters are forever searchingeven if we're not watching them, they're out there, in some dimension. Mulder and Scully are still doing their thing, because that's their nature.

'Hill Street, ' because of the wacky nature of many of our characters, really allowed us to indulge a kind of cheek-to-jowl juxtaposition of high drama with very low humor.

Only my characters truly know what's happening - I just hold the pen

Every politician brings in a wide range of context, promises and characters to bring his mission of you to listen to his words and vote for him and later he won't listen to you at any range.

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.

It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of course. You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to read--books about people and things that matter, books about life and death.

joy is a product not of whether characters live or die but of what they've realized and achieved, or how they are remembered.