Top 1200 Dynamic Characters Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

My characters - no, make that most characters - are seeking the shelter of narrative resolution, a place of quiet and grace.

I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.

After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.

In a sense, all actors are character actors, because we're all playing different characters. But a lot of the time - and I don't know, because I'm not a writer - but writers a lot of times write second- and third-tier characters better than they write primary characters. I guess they're more fun.

I don't find the characters I've played funny. The characters are actually taking their situations very seriously.

I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work harder to dimensionalize the characters. And that's certainly part of the job description of an actor - that's what you're supposed to do - but you have to work harder at it in the characters that I've encountered in studio films.

I like to play very raw characters, characters who have a degree of vulnerability and passion about what they're doing.

I do remember being a fan of the Marvel characters and not liking the DC characters at all.

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

I like to think of characters in relation to other cinematic characters.

I like my male characters as much my female characters, but I always seem to have less for them to say.

I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.

I'm drawn to female characters, not all of them are strong characters. I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy or as obvious a relationship to power in society, and so they suffer under social constraints or have to maneuver within them in ways men sometimes don't, or are unconscious about, or have certain liberties that are invisible to them.

At first, like every other actor, I wanted to do characters with deep traits - what we call 'serious characters.'

People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

I don't see female characters as different or inferior to male characters.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

I never went to school wanting to play cute characters or girly characters.

There are so many quirky characters, it's easy to fall in love with any number of the characters on 'The Carrie Diaries'.

Every filmmaker has his own vision, and when they write a film or characters, they see certain people in those characters.

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.

The 'Fargo' characters, they're the characters of my people. They're stoic, hardworking, uncomplaining, and I loved them.

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.

When you are drawing characters to serve a plot purpose, you tend to get flat, stereotyped, unliving characters.

We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia.

I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.

I look at characters to see if they have some contrasts to play with; I think that's always what I'm looking for in characters: ones that have a wide range of expression.

Normally, when you're working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.

I definitely did not play myself. As the writer of the script, I have traits of all the characters. I can relate to all of the characters.

What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.

Comic book characters are characters who wear costumes. They're not necessarily different than other characters. The trend I think that you're seeing are comic book movies, at least the ones that Marvel makes, don't have comic book stories. They have dramatic human stories.

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

I choose grey characters, as I enjoy playing a human character. I don't shy away from showing the shortcomings of my characters.

Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.

I have been fortunate enough to be offered characters and projects that challenge me and that are different from the characters that I have played.

I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.

I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

So the fact that there's someone who's planning what happens to the characters, writing it down, means that the characters always have a fate. And when we think about fate, we tend think of it as the thing we would have if we were literary characters, that is, if there were somebody out there, writing us.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

Nice characters are boring! I like writing upbeat characters - that's my natural tendency.

I have this rule. It's called 'Top Dog-Underdog:' Underdog gets to make fun of Top Dog, but Top Dog can't make fun of Underdog. But you know what? You get Top Dog, you get to be Top Dog. Congratulations! And that dynamic happens not just in race but in many different ways. It's like the male-female dynamic.

DC characters are from a different era than Marvel characters.

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.

What makes an audience watch something and care about the characters is the emotional life of the characters.

When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well.

There are so many quirky characters, its easy to fall in love with any number of the characters on The Carrie Diaries.

I'm not a fan of gushing emotions. I think that probably shows in all of the characters I play. I try to reinterpret the characters in my style.

I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes.

I have had issues in the past with the characters and the limitations of the characters and the structure of the narratives given to me as a woman of color.

I think it's more fun to grow to love characters who are flawed than it is to present perfect characters. Perfect characters aren't very funny. Certainly my friends are a strange, intense bunch of people, and people's families drive them crazy, but challenging relationships are always more rewarding.

I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters.

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are

I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters.

Making a movie is about following characters and embarking on an adventure with them, seeing their reactions, and seeing what they do, having empathy for those characters, feeling for those characters, embarking on this adventure.