Quotes About Characters

I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.

I rarely get to be part of realistic films.

I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.

I've been in the fortunate position of playing these strong, snarky female characters since Dana Gordon on 'Entourage.'

My agent will say, 'Well, it's another graphic novel.' I don't care. It's better writing than anything else that's out there. The characters are much better.

So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it.

I think women have such rich emotional lives that they are expressive about. I also think they're funny. I like watching strong female characters, and I like writing them. I don't know if it's conscious that I gravitate towards women, but it's certainly evolved that way.

We figured the audience would want good stories, great art, wonderful characters, people you could fall in love with that we would immediately put through hell.

If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.

The writers did a great job of adapting the characters from the 'Frozen' story and implementing them into the 'Once Upon a Time' world.

I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.

Florida is a great place to set a novel.

The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.

There's a reason why I do anxious characters - it comes from a lot of personal anxiety. The great thing is, having that history, it's really fun to bring that into the characters... and play with it.

I was an actor for a little bit. That's when I started to understand fiction - and that one of the great things about fiction is that you're dependent on the characters as much as they're dependent on you.

There are so many characters I want to play. I'm greedy about acting.

I can play lots of nationalities: Greeks, South Americans, Arabs, all sorts.

I loved 'Grey's Anatomy.'

'Grey's Anatomy' is by far, by a landslide, my favorite show.

The great thing about 'Mirzapur' is that no one character is clear black or white, every character is working in a grey shade.

I have no complaints from my characters, be it in 'Commando' or 'Gangs of Wasseypur' everyone on those films was grey.

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.

Perhaps it's because I am reading romance differently than I did when I was younger, but I like my characters older. Grounded in reality. And nothing is more real than kids.