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Men should be able to see themselves in female characters and female strength, just as much as women are able to see themselves in male characters.
Maya Hawke
Strength
Women
Men
Characters
See
Able
Female
Female Characters
Male
Women Are
Just
Just As Much
Themselves
Much
Should
I would absolutely love to do something with Viola Davis or Meryl Streep. I just think both of those women fall so deep into their characters that you are no longer looking at the actresses, you are looking at the characters they embraced.
Meagan Tandy
Love
You
Women
Looking
Fall
Think
Those
Characters
Would
Embraced
Something
Both
Absolutely
Davis
Longer
Meryl
Meryl Streep
Just
Deep
Actress
Viola
Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix.
Meg Cabot
Great
Character
Strong
Characters
Strong Female
Make
Equally
Female
Narrative
Female Characters
Material
Mix
Male
Same
Decisions
Might
Even
Necessarily
All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad.
Meg Cabot
Life
Character
You
Change
Book
People
Real Life
Relative
Bit
Mad
Characters
About
Case
Know
Wrote
Because
Reads
Real
Friend
Get
Want
Little
Little Bit
Them
Might
Your
Based
I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends.
Meg Tilly
Problem
Become
Nuns
Characters
Follow
Kitten
Like
Around
Ball
Yarn
Still
Friends
Very
Close
Close Friends
After
While
Them
I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.
Meg Tilly
Characters
Kind
Something
Write
Abuse
Like
Became
Felt
Been
Five
Child
Just
Wanted
Just Kind
Either
Movies
Themselves
Viewpoint
Played
Need
We all want to write the kind of book that we want to read. If you put in the things that you are thinking about and create characters who feel like they could live - at least for me, that's the way I want to write.
Meg Wolitzer
Me
You
Book
Live
Thinking
Way
Characters
Kind
About
Could
Write
Put
Feel
Like
Read
Least
Want
Create
Who
Things
We don't want to watch boring characters.
Megalyn Echikunwoke
Characters
Boring
Want
Watch
I tend to play characters that aren't supposed to black or written black.
Megalyn Echikunwoke
Black
Characters
Tend
Written
Supposed
Play
When good things come in, my agent calls or sends me the script. But I allow them to sort through the offers so that I am not just sitting and reading everything because honestly, sometimes the scripts that appeal to me are projects that are not good projects, but I just really like the script or the characters.
Megan Fox
Good
Me
Good Things
Sometimes
Reading
Honestly
Everything
Projects
Characters
Good Projects
Through
Allow
Come
Like
Sort
Calls
Because
Am
Offers
Sends
Sitting
Just
Script
Scripts
Them
Agent
Really
Appeal
Things
I love creating new characters that are whatever they are.
Megan Mullally
Love
Whatever
Characters
New
Creating
Now, it's weird not to have gay characters on a show.
Megan Mullally
Gay
Characters
Weird
Show
Now
I think of myself as a character actress, and Karen's just one of the characters I've gotten to play, but I feel like Karen takes on so much more weight because the show was on for eight seasons, and it was such a popular show. But you have to move on to telling another story in a different world.
Megan Mullally
Myself
Character
You
World
Move On
Think
Character Actress
Characters
Telling
More
Weight
Takes
Feel
Like
Another
Because
Gotten
Move
Just
Eight
Different
Just One
Story
Much
Show
Popular
Actress
Different World
Seasons
Play
I like playing characters that are true to life, and there's no guarantee that any of us are going to be okay, but we intend to be, and we take the time to try to be. I don't think it's any different for a character.
Mehcad Brooks
Life
Time
Character
Try
Think
Okay
Characters
No Guarantee
Take
True
Like
Intend
Any
Going
Different
Us
Playing
Guarantee
A lot of characters I've played have a certain amount of strength, pride, and leadership.
Mekhi Phifer
Leadership
Strength
Pride
Characters
Lot
Certain
Amount
Played
The Lone Ranger is going to be one of those iconic characters that never rides off into the sunset. We need heroes like him - an underdog who fights the good fight, doesn't kill, and has some serious mojo when the chips are down.
Mel Odom
Good
Sunset
Fight
Heroes
Down
Ranger
Those
Characters
Lone
Some
Lone Ranger
Never
Underdog
Like
Him
Off
Going
Iconic
Chips
Mojo
Fights
Who
Rides
Serious
Need
To be at the point in which I am playing characters that make such a difference to people and that really tell interesting and important stories, it took getting here to realize how important it is and how satisfying it is.
Melanie Scrofano
People
Important
Took
Tell
Characters
Point
Make
How
Am
Getting
Difference
Stories
Which
Interesting
Realize
Really
Satisfying
Here
Playing
I've tried to create a comedy that doesn't look like any other comedy. Maybe traditionally in TV there has been a kind of formula that says, 'Oh, comedy has to look this way; it has to look super bright.' But the way we shoot 'Insecure' is motivated by the mental state of each of our characters.
Melina Matsoukas
Comedy
Other
State
Our
Way
Says
Characters
Has-Been
Kind
TV
Insecure
Tried
Super
Mental
Like
Look
Motivated
Been
Shoot
Any
Maybe
Oh
Formula
Create
Each
Bright
To get the hippie out of certain characters is probably the most difficult thing for me. I was not a hippie by choice but by birth.
Melissa Leo
Me
Difficult
Birth
Out
Characters
Most
Most Difficult Thing
Hippie
Get
Choice
Certain
Thing
Difficult Thing
My body has done for me all these years things I couldn't ever even dreamt to do for characters. It's a tool, molecularly speaking, and I need to take care of it.
Melissa Leo
Me
Care
Tool
Characters
Dreamt
Take
Take Care
Years
Done
Body
Speaking
Even
Ever
Things
Need
I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.
Melissa McCarthy
Love
Incredibly
Those
Characters
Like
Mess
Because
Still
Confident
Really
Certainly
Playing
Shy
More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.
Melissa McCarthy
You
Reality
Side
Characters
Stay
Pretty
Eccentric
More
Push
Always
Far
Funnier
In terms of the characters I think are really fun to play, a lot of times it's someone in my head saying 'I know that woman.'
Melissa McCarthy
Saying
Woman
Think
Characters
Someone
Head
Know
Terms
Lot
Times
Really
Fun
Play
Well, I never got into the young adult headspace. With 'Twilight,' they are pretty adult themes, aside from maybe the first one, but even that. They're very adult themes, actually, particularly as the characters age. I never wrote for young adults. I wrote for myself, as an audience.
Melissa Rosenberg
Myself
Age
First
Young
Characters
Pretty
Adult
Never
Particularly
Wrote
Well
First One
Audience
Got
Very
Maybe
Young Adult
Young Adults
Aside
Themes
Even
Twilight
Actually
I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. 'Twilight' I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn't cast it yet.
Melissa Rosenberg
Writing
World
Better
Moon
Sense
Think
Characters
Would
Would-Be
Cast
Had
Knew
New
Roles
Going
Rhythms
Who
Actor
Twilight
Tones
Playing
Vacuum
As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!
Melissa de la Cruz
Hope
You
Own
Minds
Characters
Truly
End
Author
In The End
Sparks
Your
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