Famous Quotes & Sayings

Go to any Shinto temple in Japan and you'll see it: a simple stand from which hang hundreds of wooden postcard-size plaques with a colorful image on one side and, on the other, densely scribbled Japanese characters in black felt-tip pen, pleas to the gods for help or succor.

Jack Falahee

A thing I do with all my characters is I break them down into one of three things: mind, heart, and groin. I figure out where they come from and what they utilize most.

Donna Mills

Abby would do things that weren't very ethical, but she was never evil. She had a humanity that characters like her on the other soaps didn't have.

Chris Crutcher

I realized that I wanted to be a writer and I had characters and topics all around me to write about,

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.

Mavis Gallant

The first flash of fiction arrives without words. It consists of a fixed image like a slide or closer still a freeze frame showing characters in a simple situation....

Lily Tomlin

The film is very 'Nashville'-like in the sense that there are all of these characters who intermingle because we're on the same radio show,

Jill McCorkle

The first draft is all about freedom, and if loyalty is in question, it is only my loyalty to the characters and situations on the page. All the worries about where the material may have sprung from or what so-and-so might think can be dealt with later.

Tilly Bagshawe

. . . the characters were simply people I imagined that were interesting to me.

The characters that populate my books are global nomads in their own right, keeping multiple homes around the world and constantly jet-setting to new places.

Robert Niro

The characters that I play are real. They are real so they have as much right to be portrayed as any other characters.

Geoff Johns

The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses the line and the villain who sometimes doesn't are just much more interesting.

The characters make fools of themselves repeatedly, and show how crazy we all act when we try to pursue eternal youth.

The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan fiction with my characters.

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.

Alan Ball

The die-hard fans of this show really felt a connection to these characters and it was upsetting to them when he died,

Michael Sheen

The first thing, when I read the script, is that I need to care about what happens and feel compelled by the story and engaged by the characters. It needs to resonate with me, even if what the characters are going through is not something that I have experienced in my life. I have to feel like it has some sort of meaning to me.

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.

You know, that kind of coldness, you know. And I think, yeah, I think that definitely helped. The female characters on the show, you can see some of them wanting to know what makes him tick. And I guess that translates into some of the fans outside. You know?

David Cronenberg

You could say it's a Hollywood film because the characters are agents, actors and managers, but it is not a satire like The Player.

Pierce Brown

I usually dislike second books in series. The only second installment I ever loved was 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and I think that was wonderful because it evolved the characters while not seeming like a bridge.

Phoebe Tonkin

I loved Gwyneth Paltrow in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' and Reese Witherspoon in 'Election.' I love quirky films and characters like that.

Park Chan-wook

All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

Philip Kerr

The hardest thing is to write about people. First and foremost, you have to encounter their humanity. That is the only way you can make them live as characters on the page.

Mel Odom

The Lone Ranger is going to be one of those iconic characters that never rides off into the sunset. We need heroes like him - an underdog who fights the good fight, doesn't kill, and has some serious mojo when the chips are down.

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.