Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joshua Sasse

I want to try and portray characters that are in real life, that you see day-to-day. If I were to just stay in my little village in Wales, I would have gotten a very small taste of a very big plate.

Gina Rodriguez

I will play the characters with last names like Sanchez and Gonzalez until the day I die, but I also want to play the 'Michelle Smiths.'

Kelli O'Hara

Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow.

Ray McKinnon

With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an actor, I inhabit those characters as I'm writing them.

Doug Wilson

With those younger players, you saw their talent but they were always like secondary characters in a play, ... They never learned what it was like to be the go-to guy and they didn't think like that.

Sarah Hall

Wonderful characters rotate around and through bookshops on a daily basis, competing with and possibly even triumphing over fiction when it comes to entertainment, strangeness and inspiration.

Eric Braeden

Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood.

Deborah Moggach

Writing a novel is a huge adventure; when it's going well it's more fun than fun. When it stutters to a halt put it aside. Go for a swim, go for a walk, take a week off. Don't panic or be afraid; you and your characters are in it together. Trust them to come to your rescue.

Anthony Marra

To make a book convincing, it's less important that the right tree be in the right place than that the characters are emotionally real.

Lleyton Hewitt

Yeah, you're always going to have those kind of characters out there, I guess. You know, different personalities. You know, you look at McEnroe and Borg, totally different situations, playing styles, strengths and weaknesses, I guess.

Max von Sydow

When I know what the character I'm supposed to play wants in general terms, and when I know what did the other characters want to do, that's when all these wills collide and the emotions show up.

Hannah Murray

I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.

Honeysuckle Weeks

I have always been a fan of Jim Henson, and I love his Creature Shop creations, the skill of the puppets and the characters he creates.

We know that when guests are familiar with Disney stories and characters they will enjoy the park even more, and want to come back again.

Sebastian Faulks

The nicest characters in 'A Week in December' are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them.

Rupert Grint

The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well.

Paul Bloom

I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult to watch comedies that rely too heavily on embarrassment; the vicarious reaction to this is too unpleasant.

Ruth Ozeki

When I write fiction, I have the illusion of being able to control these fictional worlds and these characters, and to make them say what I want them to say. Of course, the problem is that it is an illusion, and by the end of it you realize that you're not in control of it at all; the characters have taken over, and they're driving the vehicle.

Margaret Mahy

I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been.

Pat Mitchell

I think journalists and filmmakers are keen observers. And actors must also be sharp observers as they draw their characters and their stories from what they experience around them. After all, that is what actors, filmmakers, journalists are trained to be: observers. And then they do something with their observations.

Malala Yousafzai

I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.

Pau Gasol

We had a lot of characters and maybe they were too much for him in the end.

We've made every effort to create a world as close to the one in which our characters moved, ... a world that is coherent and convincing.

Tanith Lee

Usually the characters lead, but sometimes you have such a strong theme that... they won't let you.

Pablo Schreiber

I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will again.

Neil Young

We're aggressively working on characters because they're key for this genre.

Gene Luen Yang

We're afraid of writing characters different from ourselves because we're afraid of getting it wrong. We're afraid of what the Internet might say.

Jerry Robinson

We really lived, ate, drank and slept Batman - ideas, characters and stories.

Darren Star

When you're doing a single-camera show, it's more buying into a level of reality. I think a sitcom, a four-camera show, doesn't require that so much. I think with a film show, you just need the characters to grow.

Courtney Ford

I would love to be able to play some characters on television that are similar to some of the indie film roles I've done, that have been so close to my heart.

Billy Zane

I would love to do a comedy. The primary thing is complexity. The reason I play so many dark characters is because there is room for the unexpected.

Treat Williams

Most characters for actors like me are not very compelling because they're totally together and they don't have complicated lives.

Stan Sakai

Most of my female characters tend to be very strong characters.