Top 1200 Fictional Character Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.

I do feel privileged to play Elektra, because definitely she is a strong female character. She's a strong character. It would be nice if eventually we'd just say she's a strong character, not a strong female character.

The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling.

As a writer, you have to put yourself in service to the character, get behind their eyes by delineating the world where the character develops. You have to listen to the character and see him inside his certain world to know what conclusions he would draw.

Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with an emotion after I have established a character in my mind. I feel what they feel. I guess that is why it comes across so strongly.

There's a kind of chemical spark that comes sometimes with the character, that you don't even have to think about how she is reacting, you just let yourself go. You just let the character take you, instead of taking the character.

Once you create a believable fictional universe, you suck the audiences into that world and they tag along for the ride.

Once you discover that real pirates are more interesting than fictional ones, you can't look away.

In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.

I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s.

It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.

I like to create a character where you believe, deep down, that they don't really care if they live or die. That's very liberating for the character because, if the character is prepared to die, then they can do anything. It's impossible to stop them.

We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

Stage is so important because it teaches me how to convey character with words - how to convey how a character reacts by the way they appear on stage. I can usually tell a playwright from someone who has never written for the stage. Did the character work? Did the dialogue reveal who the character is?

I don't care if you hate me or if you like me, as long as somebody gives me a character that is really a character to play. It's fun to be able to have a character and have a director that can direct you into a character. I'm just so happy that I got a good role. I don't care if it's bad or if it's good, and I don't care if it's drama or comedy. They are just so rare to come across.

I think everybody goes through changes, and the same should be said for fictional characters, especially ones that you follow on television.

It might be the history major in me, but I look to the past when I try to construct my fictional futures.

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

Musically, though, you're a character and you're singing a song. If you're not your own character, you're the character in the song, most of the time. Even blues musicians, a lot of them who were the most realistic, at times, they were singing a song and portraying a character in the song. There's something to be said for getting involved in the emotion of a song, too, with the characters.

We shouldn't confuse singers and performers with actors. Actors will say, "My character this, and my character that." Like beating a dead horse. Who cares about the character? Just get up and act. You don't have to explain it to me.

My character's kind of grown up with Katniss. The beginning of the story, they're more or less brother and sister than anything. They're best friends. They've been keeping each other alive. It's a little frustrating, for the character. As the character, not as me.

This character matters so much to so many people. I want to get that right. I want to do it justice. I want people to believe in the character and have faith in the character and kids to grow up wanting to be Superman. Or, God forbid, there's people who are going through hardship and wishing that this character would turn up and save them.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.

Corporations are a fictional entity that are designed to make money, and they're neither people nor patriots.

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner.

The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.

Character - We describe the character of a person in reference to moral judgments about the worthiness of a person. Thus, to have a strong, great or honorable character is to be a person of merit, worthy of admiration and honor.

This is a corny actor thing to say, but the first step is that you can't judge the character that you're playing. If it's built in three-dimensional fashion, you'll just play a character who's going out and seeking the best version of their life that they can find. That gives the character an accessibility that everyone can identify with.

A character like Baahubali required a preparation that I had to undergo mentally and physically - from undertaking a strict routine and a lifestyle, which helped me become the character physically, to knowing the character's depth and a lot more.

Joker' is, of course, a character of my generation grew up with, and it's a character you know really well and have strong opinions about. He's been a larger-than-life character in fiction. He's one of these rare characters that have had such strong performances.

If we can provide even a fictional roadmap to what a successful, prosperous African nation might look like, then let's do that.

I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.

In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

When I am doing a fictional show, I become someone else. Reality shows keep you close to who you really are.

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. My first novel, Middlepost, is a fictional account of that journey.

The events of the Civil War are so odd, ferocious, and poignant that fictional characters do well simply to inhabit them.

What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.

More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.

I'm a big fan of character actors like Johnny Depp and Gary Oldman. My goal is to continue playing character roles in indie films and move into playing character leads.

When I get excited about a character, I'll start doing things as the character and thinking about what the character would do.

Music helps define the character and is an extension of the character somehow, so that you are able to use both the songs themselves and the way that you sing them to tell something about the character and his story, as well as develop a performance style.

When you work on a pre-existing character, when you end up getting invited to be part of a legacy character like Superman, I don't feel like it would be true to the character if all I did was go in looking to express my own voice.

Obviously, with a CGI character, you're building a character in much the same way as a real creature is built. You build the bones, the skeletons, the muscles. You put layers of fat on. You put a layer of skin on which has to have a translucency, depending on what the character is.

I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional.

I was 9 when I wrote 'Fate Stay with Me.' It was this fictional song about romance gone wrong.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

We've been able to create those personalities that are not anonymous that can somehow support exposure but in a fictional way.

We build character in order for us to withstand the rigors of combat and resist the temptations to compromise our principles in peacetime. We must build character in peacetime because there is no time in war. Character is the most important quality you can find in any person, but especially in a soldier. It is the foundation that will get anybody through anything he may encounter. Reputation is what people think you are; character is what you are- that is the staying power.

I've been lucky that even when I was younger, just because of my look or whatever, I was afforded the opportunity or called on to try. 'Can you do this Hispanic character?' 'Can you do this Italian character?' 'Can you do this Jewish-American character?' I just had to develop a facility for their accents.

It didn’t matter the quality of the writing— Callie’s fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic.

I much prefer films based on fact rather than fictional stories.

The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.

In a sense, fictional dystopias have been a way of distracting us from the truth of our condition by placing it 'over there.'

You have to have a character; you have to build your character. If you understand the pro wrestling scheme of things, then you understand what the promoting is. These guys are friendly backstage, but as soon as the cameras turn on, it's a whole different story: you become that character.

If we show fictional characters doing cool stuff, then girls will want to be it in real life.