2740 Characters Quotes for You to Enjoy

I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating. Hannah Murray

History Girl Secret Characters Find Like Really Fascinating Her

There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters. Hannah Murray

Women Somebody Daughter Young Characters Three-Dimensional Girlfriend Rather Main Particularly Female Accessories Than Roles Just Being Story Young Women Many

I used to have costumed characters come out, like SpongeBob. It's just fun to make it into this minor event, just to surprise people and experiment and be weird and just have fun with it. I've done just the hour stand-up, and that's fun, but the other stuff makes it fun for me and gives me something to react to and bounce off of. Hannibal Buress

Me People Have Fun Experiment Other Out Characters Minor Something Gives Bounce Weird Stuff Come Hour Like React Make Makes Surprise Off Done Just Used Fun Event

No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer. Harlan Coben

You Experience Will Black Black And White Reading White Think Bit Characters Stay Something More Longer Leads Makes Close Want Grey Interesting Little Little Bit Them Much Including

Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing. Harlan Coben

Writing Characters Only Outlining Ideas Coming Up Creating Researching

Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white. Harlan Coben

Good Book Sometimes Black Black And White White Think Characters Bad About More Write Over Know Than Interesting Really Even Gray

What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters. Harmony Korine

Love Myself Remember Films Characters About Scenes Specific

I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C. Harold Pinter

Characters Calling Always Play Start

With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie. Harold Ramis

Love Great Enough Characters See Both Like Make Another Were Subjects Movie Interest Engaged Serious Round Actor Vacation Need

I think every actor wants to play those big parts. In the very first play I ever did, I remember understanding all the characters in it. I always felt I could play anyone. Harry Dean Stanton

Remember First Big Understanding Every Think Those Characters Could Parts Felt Always Very Did Anyone Wants Actor Ever Play

Aaron Echolls is one of the best characters that I've ever played. Harry Hamlin

Best Characters Ever Played

Perhaps not unusually for a popular film produced over three decades ago, there have been a dizzying parade of corporate characters trading rights to 'This Is Spinal Tap' through the years. Yet our requests for timely statements of the film's income have been met with a series of slammed doors. Harry Shearer

Rights Three Met Doors Our Corporate Statements Parade Characters Spinal Spinal Tap Through Over Perhaps Unusually Trading Been Years Tap Timely Decades Produced Requests Popular Series Film Income Slammed

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives. Harvey Fierstein

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation. Harvey Keitel

Build Tools Background Characters Must Improvisation Create Use

A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to. Hayden Schlossberg

You People Joke Become Caricatures Machines Characters Rather Sort Lot Times Than Improv Just Movies Sequels Connect Actually

With historicals, the research is half the fun. Contemporaries are especially easy. People are right out there in front of you; you meet them every day. You can concentrate wholly on the story and characters. Heather Graham Pozzessere

Day You Every Day People Half Research Every Meet Out Characters Easy Concentrate Contemporaries Front Story Them Fun Wholly Right

Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women. Helen Mirren

Me You Women Hate Strong Say Characters Phrases About Annoy Feisty Most Female Female Characters Condescending Reference Really Thing Two

I sometimes get asked: 'How come the men in your stories don't have such strong characters?' And I'm like: 'I don't care.' I just want to find out about all the different lives a woman can live. But my feminism has never been against men. It's not erasure; it's just they're not the focus. In real life, they're quite nice. Helen Oyeyemi

Life Woman Strong Sometimes Care Focus Men Feminism Real Life Nice Live Out Characters Find About Never Come Like How Real Been Get Quite Just Different Want Stories Against Asked Your Lives

I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now I've decided that reading fiction that features characters who are in those professions will do. Helen Oyeyemi

Will Reading Too Other Those Librarian Characters Features Writer Always Fiction Wanted Decided Psychologist Who Now Professions Things

I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock. Helena Bonham Carter

Unlock Drawn Characters More Emotionally Because Damaged

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.' Henry Louis Gates

Family Queen Thought Films Programs Our Saw Television Neighbors Characters Friends Jungle Tarzan Africa African Movies Extensions

What I'm really trying to do is create unique characters. Hideo Kojima

Characters Trying Create Really Unique

Now I'm president. I get to meet a lot of other company presidents. They're such weird people. I'm fascinated by them. I use some of them as enemy characters in our games. Hidetaka Miyazaki

People Enemy Other President Meet Our Presidents Characters Some Weird Lot Get Them Use Games Fascinated Company Now

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