2740 Characters Quotes for You to Enjoy

I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently. Kathryn Bigelow

Think Extreme Consistently Drawn Characters Find Provocative Situations Themselves

I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives. Kathryn Lasky

Treat Characters Details About Am Real Were Lives

I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize Theron would make a lovely Marie Antoinette. Kathryn Lasky

Love Stars Think Thinking Books Characters Would Charlize Theron Could Write Make Movie Lovely Movie Stars Who Play Marie Marie Antoinette

For me, the acting part - and I have to say it makes me a little worried about my own psychological make-up - is that I just love to hide in other characters. I don't like to get up in front of people and talk as Kathy Baker. But as soon as you say 'action,' I'm lost in that character. Kathy Baker

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I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented. Kathy Bates

Myself Try Characters Always Been Fit Presented Stretch

The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends. Kathy Griffin

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There should be characters and situations that we cannot identify with, that retain either too much horror or too much wonder to allow for simple identification. That feels to me like an accurate depiction of what it is like to be in the world, rather than a neutered register of continual empathy. Katie Kitamura

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Whenever you're blessed and given a second season, you can really let the characters evolve. That first season, you're setting everything up. It's background, where they're coming from, what they want to do. And then you get to marinate in it that second season. Katy Mixon

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In putting setting to work, I like to think about long shots and close-ups. The long shot is the overall view of the place in which the characters live - the island, the town, the wide sweep of place. Then we narrow in. The close-up, the tight focus, makes the place different from anywhere else. Kaui Hart Hemmings

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Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human. Keira Knightley

Great People Speak Characters Constantly About Well Makes Human Fictional Literature Movies Turned Reason Thing

It's important that I work with people where they know why they're hiring me and that they're looking to create art without fear. Anyone who uses those excuses to not cast people or to create extremely stereotypical characters, they're creating out of fear, and to me that's really boring. Keiynan Lonsdale

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I'm an actor. I have to play weird characters, quirky characters, strange characters, sometimes characters I don't understand. Keke Palmer

Strange Sometimes Characters Weird Understand Quirky Actor Play

Even in horror novels where you know most characters aren't going to make it to the end, it's crucial to have fully fleshed-out characters. If you don't do that, the reader doesn't care what happens to them. Kelley Armstrong

You Care Characters Horror Crucial Know Most Make Reader End Going Where Happens Them Fully Even Novels

I wanted to create a world that presented the Smurfs with obstacles and challenges and really put them in a fish-out-of-water situation but also make them very active in getting out of their situation. Make them really the central characters. Kelly Asbury

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When you're really young, you tend to fall in love with characters. If you start seeing the same type of character everywhere and realize that they don't look like you, or they don't speak like you, you start wanting to change who you are. That's something that I did when I was a young kid. Kelly Marie Tran

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I had written for the theater and didn't know that I knew how to write for film. Ultimately, I think it's just trusting your voice, trusting your characters, and then telling them in a different medium. Kelly Masterson

With Marvel, I obviously don't own the characters, so there are levels of approval to go through. But I'm very seldom told no, and never without reason. Maybe I've just been lucky; I don't know, but I don't think it's as frustrating as people generally imagine. I act as though I own it all while I'm writing, I think. I hope, anyway. Kelly Sue DeConnick

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My books often involve characters who began in some form of mental isolation, with a feeling of having died to the world. Then they become involved in some kind of action where by necessity they're forced to reengage, to get back into the game of life, as it were. You could say that about 'Chance.' Kem Nunn

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People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can make them. But if you say my characters are too black and white, you've missed the point. Villains are meant to be black-hearted in popular novels. If you say I have a grey-hearted villain, then I've failed. Ken Follett

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I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult. Ken Follett

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