Top 1200 Fictional Character Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

The truth is that, to me, a likeable character is a character that is really flawed, so I don't know what people mean when they say 'likable.'

If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as interesting to the reader.

My take is that every character requires a different character to be cast.

The first thing I do with any script is read it and try to visualize if I can play the character - if I can feel what the character's feeling.

If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race or that sex, and they can't be interesting because everything they do has to represent an entire block of people. You know, Superman isn't all white people and neither is Lex Luthor. We knew we had to present a range of characters within each ethnic group, which means that we couldn't do just one book. We had to do a series of books and we had to present a view of the world that's wider than the world we've seen before.

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.

I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.

When you're playing a character, I think it's always better not to judge that character.

The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy tale and a murder mystery.

I write fiction that reflects Islamic logic: fictional worlds where cause and effect are governed by Muslim rationale. However, my characters do not necessarily behave as 'good' Muslims; they are not ideals or role models.

What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likable, but eventually relatable.

As long as a character doesn't die, the character can always come back.

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.

Thrilled that Gov. Romney enjoys my old character. I enjoyed the character he used 2 b 2. If he'd embrace that again, he'd b a great candidate.

I had directed a short film called 'Girvhi' earlier, on child labour. It was a fictional story. At that time, I realised I could direct a film if given a chance.

Even though it is fictional, 'Pose' has really tapped into some realities that I know would come from someone who really took the time to investigate ballroom.

As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life.

Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.

It's definitely my responsibility not to stereotype any character, but especially a gay character because of the misperceptions people still have about gays.

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.

I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.

Just working on a character and his mannerisms, but not looking the part, is not my thing. It is your duty as an actor to be honest to the character.

Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.

It's a real challenge to have someone perform a character vs. imitate a character.

Look for players with character and ability. But remember, character comes first.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

When I become a character in a movie or drama... I can think about the character only and not the complicated matters of my own life.

There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.

Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the story I wanted to tell.

A well-written character is one where you don't know in which direction it's going; the character could spring a surprise any moment.

I really feel our job as actors is to find a human experience in the character. So, for me, genre comes second; it's about script and the emotional journey of that character. Genre definitely has an impact, but it has more of an impact on the way the character is expressed. We all have the same core emotions of love, jealousy, rage - it's just how they're expressed.

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

Like my fictional protagonist Tom Thorne, I love country. My tastes go back a bit further than his do, and I still listen to stuff from the late '70s and early '80s.

When I was growing up, there was a character on TV; there was a character stereotype: it was personified by Mel on 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

It's always fun to layer a character, to make the character a little bit more dynamic than it is on paper.

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

I think when you're playing a character in any film it's so crucial to have the costume that makes you feel like you're going to be that character.

If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely different preparation time and message to playing someone fictional.

Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'

As an actor, you have to be able to put yourself into the character since your job is literally making the character and the situation he is in believable.

When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas.

It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.

If you have a character named Captain America, he is, by default, a political character.

You think football builds character. It does not. It reveals character.

All characters have a voice but not all voices have character. And it's all about character and personality.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

People are looking for a simplicity in their fictional worlds where good and evil are clearly delineated, that you can't find in the real world, and that provides an enormous comfort - and that, I think, has an awful lot to do with the reason fantasy is so popular.

Food is an excellent way to do very elegant worldbuilding - the kind that can make a fictional world seem real, like it extends way past the edges of the frame.

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'

You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways it looks like.

I strongly believe that when you are cast in a role, there will be similarity in the character and you - why else would you be chosen for the character?

My character in 'Casa de mi Padre' is an ambitious woman. I had never played that kind of character before.

I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what they do.

When I developed the Ultimate Warrior character and kept evolving the character, I knew, there was no question that it would work because it was working.

I think if you've held onto a character for several years and then you're getting rid of that character, it's going to be traumatic.

I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing anyway. Some call it creative nonfiction.