Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rupert Grint

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

Dana Williams

Because they are so customizable, you can make them into whatever you want them to be, and I want them to be characters in my story. They usually feed my creativity. I like having the characters so that I can hold them and see them.

I managed to get the four most polite children ever and they blushed through most of the rehearsals. At first, they were very uncomfortable with it and whispered the words. But, they got used to it because all of their characters use swear words.

I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'

Catherine Mary Stewart

I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.

Melissa McCarthy

More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.

John Searles

My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.

Maria Semple

My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world. I always had a mind for characters and dialogue, and my head was filled with that stuff, so it seemed like a good place to start.

Marc Guggenheim

Obviously, I love superheroes; I love comic book characters, but I... I guess I've had a lifelong affection for comics, and while I love the characters so much, I also love the medium.

Audrey Meadows

Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie,he was worth his weight in gold.

Audrey Meadows

Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold.

From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional sci-fi.

Joel Edgerton

If, at the end of the day, I can look back and see pictures of all the characters I've played, and there's a smorgasbord of weirdos and interesting, odd, different characters, I'd be so happy.

Jeff Lemire

I have always been drawn to young characters and seeing big tapestries through the eyes of a child. It probably comes from being a father myself and having a young son and seeing the world through his eyes. I write stories that are sort of the exaggerated version of that.

Noah Baumbach

I had Jeff Daniels wear my Dad's clothes. It wasn't because I wanted to recreate my Dad in any way, it's because by having those things there it warms me to the characters and the story, it puts me in it more, ... The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

Sophie Marceau

I have been making films for the last 25 years and have played characters created and inspired by others, and I often enjoyed myself doing that.

Lily James

I feel like, sometimes, characters that are just good and nice can seem boring or uninteresting.

E. O. Wilson

I feel sort of embarrassed I don't go to plays, but I can't keep the characters straight. I feel I should be somewhere else.

Jeff Lemire

I can't really write anything without knowing the ending. I don't know how people do that. Even with my superhero stuff, I have to know at least where I want to take the characters and what the ending of my story with them will be. I just can't structure stories or character arcs and stuff without knowing the endpoint.

Joseph Mawle

I found school quite tough, but Saturday night was movie night, and I started to empathise with the characters on screen. I started to get more involved with what these people were experiencing. Film inspired me to do better.

Greg Rucka

I have distinct tastes on these characters and I will fight for them.

Isaac Singer

I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions. Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.

Martin Freeman

I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.

Geoff Johns

I didn't want to take the DC universe, put it in a box, shake the box and pour it out. I wanted to take the major characters and show what they could be like if they were put on a different path.

Warren Spector

I don't even make multiplayer games much, so dealing with multiple characters is something new for me - or, rather, something I've had to recall from my days as a roleplaying adventure designer where the party was everything!

Jeff Lemire

I don't enjoy putting my characters through hell unless there's a reason. I don't use violence or anything just for shock value. They're always a means to an end.

Marie Brennan

I'd love to see more novels and short stories where the characters have their own folklore that isn't the Plot-Bearing Prophecy of Doom.

Ruth Rendell

I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds.

B. D. Wong

I am fine playing 'Law & Order' and even the 'Jurassic' movies to be straight up, as far as the characters being portrayed there, but I never want to stay in straight-up land too long. I always wanted to do something where the character's world gets to be explored.

Sara Shepard

If my characters travel somewhere, I generally write about a place I know to give the scenes more authenticity.

Gabriel Byrne

O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.

Geena Davis

We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.

Idina Menzel

I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.