Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Daniel Woodrell

Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.

Rachel McAdams

You know, I have some issues, ... But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

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.

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.

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.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.

Orison Swett Marden

Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.

Zach Woods

I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.

Vicky McClure

When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.

Susanna Clarke

Nothing, I find, has prepared me for the sight of my own characters walking about. A playwright or screenwriter must expect it; a novelist doesn't and naturally concludes that she has gone mad.

One thing I think is that comics are really good at expressing emotion. I think there's a way that comics characters can be drawn not-realistically, but the emotional reality is still very sincere. So you can have these exaggerations that express inner emotion through physical appearance.

Lynn Coady

Never use dogs to symbolize anything. That is ridiculous. Always ensure that any dogs are just dogs; i.e., characters in the story who happen to be dogs.

Marie Lu

On the one hand, I'm so relieved that I've actually managed to finish my very first series and that I've been able to see my characters through to the end of their journeys. On the other hand, I feel like how parents must feel when they send their kid off to college. It's a bittersweet mix.

Richard Harmon

One of the greatest things about 'Continuum' is how great the writing is; our writing room is one of the most talented ones I've ever had. It really helps me as far as character development because they paint a very descriptive picture of who the characters are while still letting us have freedom to put in our own ideas.

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.

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.