Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julie Kagawa

I like to put my characters through a lot, so, in 'Talon,' my fans will find familiar themes of bravery and sacrifice, and what it means to be human... even if you're not human.

Jonathan Stroud

I like to have my characters talking in an up-to-date way, and I like their essentially modern self-awareness, which means we can have lots of irony and jokes.

Daniel Sharman

I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind. I think that's wonderful. To be able to lose it, in many ways, is just great fun to do.

I love seeing a story evolve over several books and watching characters develop.

Nicki Minaj

I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.

Joel Kinnaman

I look at characters to see if they have some contrasts to play with; I think that's always what I'm looking for in characters: ones that have a wide range of expression.

Harvey Keitel

I read Get Shorty and Be Cool. He's a wonderful writer. He has his ear and his pen on the pulse of these kinds of characters he's writing about.

Aneurin Barnard

I always used to pretend to be different characters - cowboys, that sort of thing. I used to think that the Indians lived over the mountains that I could see out of my bedroom. As I grew up, I started to understand that acting was actually a craft, and there was no question about it, that was exactly what I was going to do.

Anthony Marra

Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning.

Graeme Murphy

But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens.

Rupert Grint

But we knew the characters pretty well because we were all big fans of the books.

The idea is to find colorful characters who have grown up in a different generation and put them in a kind of competitive situation with the kids of today.

Emilio Estevez

The hotel and the characters under its roof serve as a microcosm for what was happening in the country during that time.

The guy in charge of the main characters is generally going to be a person of color.

The important part of the show is the repetitive nature of the dialogue of the two characters - how they make the same mistakes day after day.

Goran Visnjic

You want to have somebody like Elektra on your side, and it's one of the characters who is helping storytelling in the story also.

Jill McCorkle

You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story - that some quality speaks to the individual.

John Banville

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same time, a novel is never autobiographical even if it describes the life of the author. Literary writing is a completely different medium.

Angelina Jolie

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren't characters I looked up to and identified with.

Jon Favreau

The key to writing real characters is not to treat everybody like a real person and give everybody a good side and a bad.

These are characters they know and love, and you want to make sure to be true to those characters.

Robert Thompson

These kinds of characters are so satisfying to male viewers because culture has told them to be powerful and effective and to get things done, and at the same time they're living, operating and working in places that are constantly defying that.

Geoff Johns

Aquaman is one of the greatest characters at DC Comics and one of my favorites.

Richard Hatch

Apollo, Athena, these are characters out of Greek mythology-we used a lot of the Egyptian mythology, as well. And we tapped into the premise of, you know, Who is mankind? Where did we evolve from?

Terry Teachout

A playwright who limits himself - or is limited - to a handful of characters is forced to concentrate on the essentials of the situation that he has chosen to portray.

As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.

Camilla Luddington

As a female there aren't too many characters that are very empowering, and there's something very empowering about Lara Croft. She kicks butt and she does it in style. She's confident and she's educated.

Joel Edgerton

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

Douglas Booth

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

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.

Michael K. Williams

People say they love the characters I've chosen in my career. But I didn't choose anything. I just happened to be working and these were offered to me.

Mike White

People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.

Or invent new wrinkles or characters or whatever to keep them fresh.