4025 Character Quotes for You to Enjoy

The great thing about writing is that you always put yourself in the shoes of the character. If you're doing it right, you can see into the heart of all your characters. Usually, when there's a writing problem, it's because you aren't doing that. Peter Gould

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People sort of accuse Tolkien of not being good with female characters, and I think that Eowyn actually proves that to be wrong to some degree. Eowyn is actually a strong female character, and she's a surprisingly modern character, considering who Tolkien actually was sort of a stuffy English professor in the 1930s and '40s. Peter Jackson

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Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character. Peter Jackson

Character Superior Other Medium Emotion Infinitely Any Where Story Film

I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed. Peter Mayhew

Character Speak Language Think Main Had He Main Thing Regular Thing

After a while, the character sort of took over. Peter Mayhew

Character Took Over Sort After While

I understand in the context of acting, it allows me to manifest character, but I am no wiser then the next person that is living up a life, that is acting and reacting to the built-up circumstances around them. Peter Scolari

Life Character Me Living Circumstances Wiser Reacting Around Understand Am Context Up Person Manifest Them Then Next Acting

I realise that certain actors project their own image onto the screen - those who are the same on as they are off. But I've never had the necessary statistics to be able to do that sort of thing, and so, anyway, I always wanted to be a character actor. Peter Sellers

Character Own Project Character Actor Those Statistics Able Onto Never Had Sort Always Off Same Screen Wanted Realise Anyway Certain Who Actor Thing Image Necessary

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece. Peter Shaffer

Music Character Key Piece Verbal Rhetoric

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character. Peter Shaffer

Music Character First Think Possibly Leading Film

I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character. Peter Thiel

Time Character People Financial Live Would Would-Be Somewhat Takes Retired Longer Period Lot Very Suspect Just Different Planning

There have been discussions of doing 'The Demon Cycle' on both large and small screen scale, and while there is no project currently in development, I think the series has both the big imagery and complex character development to have legs either as a TV series or film franchise. Peter V. Brett

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Brands are useful ways of short-handing practically anything - look at the way Tom Wolfe first used brand name lists to sharpen up a character and a situation. Look at the most brand-referenced novel, Bret Easton Ellis's 'Glamorama.' Peter York

My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted to publish it, but I liked the character, did a few stories to keep my hand in. Phil Foglio

'Blasto' is a new game for Sony Playstation. It's an awesome three-dimensional game, and I play the character Blasto who's sort of a Flash Gordon barrel-chested superhero who goes to Uranus and shoots these little green alien Fascist guys. He rescues babes; he goes on wild rides. Phil Hartman

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And I liked this extreme character of de Sade. Philip Kaufman

Character Extreme Sade Liked

A lot of crime writing suffers from treading water. I feel an obligation to move the character on and not repeat myself. I try to fit him into a different period and a different agenda. That way, you learn slightly more about his personal history in the tradition of the unreliable narrator. It makes it more challenging to write. Philip Kerr

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I relate to that idea of not necessarily seeking out 'interesting female roles,' but 'this character, this role, who happens to be a woman, is interesting to me, and I relate to it in some way, so I'm just gonna go with my gut and see where it leads me.' Phillipa Soo

I don't think the challenge is asking an audience to like a character; it's inviting them to try and understand them... then making that journey entertaining and worth their while. It's a classic trick, but it's human, and it allows characters to have more depth. Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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