Quotes About Characters

I may be the only actress in Hollywood who won't need a face lift, because when I take off my makeup, I look so great compared to my characters!

I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

I think good kids TV has got to have layers. It has to have compelling characters that everyone loves, but you can't dumb it down.

All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.

After the complex characters in 'Mayaanadhi' and 'Varathan,' my characters in 'Vijay Superum Pournamiyum' and 'Argentina Fans Kaattoorkkadavu' were bubbly ones.

I think a conceptual idea comes to me first - something I've been mulling over a lot right before I feel like writing a book - and then the characters start to develop around it.

A lot of my songs are about things that concern me personally, not a heightened version of myself or any of the characters that I play.

Psych yourself up until you're confident that the world will be interested in what happens to your characters. Confidence is key.

I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved. Characters are incidental.

You can have characters that say one thing and do another, and in certain kinds of drama, you can't get away with that because the audience will become confused - or certainly, the commissioners will become confused and tell you to stop doing it!

As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.

My characters in both 'Pyaar Ka Punchnama' films were so relatable that every other guy connects with me.

My conscious decision has always been to do work that's meaningful and play characters that give something to the film.

I just write the characters the way I see them. And maybe that's because I'm surrounded by the most amazing men,from my father to my husband to all of my brothers. They are true heroes!

Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures.

In every Kubrick movie, there is so much great thought put into the surroundings. It's almost like the sets are huge characters in the movie at all times.

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

Good people never survive on 'Game of Thrones.' That's the problem.

I can't measure up to Homer. His composition has survived for nearly three millennia and remains the world's most beautiful and mournful depiction of war. But the story of the Trojan War does not belong to Homer. The characters he employs were legendary long before he was born.

You didn't have to know anything about show business to appreciate the characters' humor, because at its heart, 'Party Down' was about following dreams, dealing with rejection, and surviving all the lame jobs we've all had to work just to get by in the meantime.

I'm mostly a historical romance reader, but I never miss a Susan Elizabeth Phillips book. Her characters are larger than life and heartbreakingly real at the same time. I don't know how she does it.