Top 1200 Interesting Characters Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set.

I think the most interesting characters are those in which you can see both sides.

Like every actor, I am always on the lookout for interesting characters.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.

It's good to know that other people think differently, and that's what makes the characters interesting.

Generally, the bigger the budget, the less interesting the characters become.

Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol.

Though the characters I have played are all very different, they are all strong, interesting women.

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

Indian mythology and its characters have always fascinated me and I find the antagonists especially very interesting.

That is what I seek, to essay interesting and challenging characters, which develop me as an actor and at a personal level to work with people who inspire me to push my boundaries and work on interesting scripts which which turn into refined work of art and leave a mark on me and the audience.

Women just make interesting characters, especially when you're working against cliches.

When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.

My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

I think my best quality as a writer is the ability to craft complicated, nuanced, interesting characters.

What's interesting about the 'Smash Bros.' games, is that the 'Smash Bros.' games do not represent the Nintendo characters fighting against one another: they actually represent toys of Nintendo characters getting into an imaginary battle amongst themselves.

I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters.

That's the main thing, looking for interesting characters, good directors, and experiences where you're growing and learning.

Some of the most interesting characters in literature and in movies and TV have been ones that you can't quite figure out all the way.

I like to make all my characters interesting. Be they male, female or creatures unknown.

I like three-dimensional characters - it's just more interesting when you get on set.

I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.

I've always been attracted to characters that were interesting to me, and different.

Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.

Characters that are not the norm or a bit out of the ordinary are always a challenge as an actress. You learn more by using different tools for those type of characters. They are always much more fun to play and much more interesting. They take you places that you wouldn't necessarily go in your everyday life.

I like the characters that have some redeeming quality or if it's interesting to me in any way.

It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced to face issues and emotions, feelings, that they have. So it kind of forces them to face it head on, which I think is a really interesting dynamic. And I think it should be interesting and probably a good thing for the relationship.

None of the male characters are as powerful or as interesting as the four central female characters. The men work best as representations of the current stage of a particular female’s psyche. The men function as catalysts, and are certainly important to the development of the story, but the relationships are not the goal. I do not see romance as being what’s central to the success of PRETTY LITTLE LIARS.

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.

I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's so cliched. A weak male character is interesting: somebody else hasn't done it a hundred times. A strong female character is still interesting to me because it hasn't been done all that much, finding the balance of femininity and strength. [From a 1986 Fangoria interview]

As an actor, my job is not to always play characters who make everybody happy. That's not interesting.

To combine telling an interesting story with brilliantly written characters is the most difficult thing to do.

What's best for business is just continue to have an entertaining product with great, interesting characters.

I'm not sure that it's easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies.

I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us human - it's what defines us as human beings. Contradictions are what make characters interesting, and I've been lucky to be presented with characters who have a lot of contradictions.

I think the relationship between mother and daughter is so interesting, even in a semi-normal family. Emily Thorne/Amanda Clarke's family relationship is going to be so interesting to explore. It is going to give me so many places to go. Obviously, it has been said that she is not the most stable of characters. What is interesting about that, when you think about mental health, is that young women will often come into those problems and difficulties in their 20's, so it is very possible that this will start to affect her psyche.

I'm portraying out characters, I'm portraying femme characters, characters that are really outside of the box. I never thought I would get that opportunity to portray those characters at all, much less have a career that I have.

I think everybody likes to play the villain. Theyre always much more interesting characters.

I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.

I love playing different characters. I just do. I want to play even more quirky and interesting characters and just something that people wouldn't automatically think that I would be. I want to go against the grain a bit and I'm hoping people will be open-minded enough to cast me in stuff that's going against the grain.

It's always interesting to play characters who are vulnerable and how you display that vulnerability and what it's going to mean to people who watch it.

I want to try not to repeat myself. But then I seem to do it continuously in my films. It's not something I make any effort to do. I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience. I feel I get criticized for style over substance, and for details that get in the way of the characters. But every decision I make is how to bring those characters forward.

I'm lucky that the characters that I get tend to be interesting and a little schizophrenic.

Playing interesting characters makes me feel alive.

I can't judge the characters I play, because it's for the audience to do. What I can try to do is to understand and embody what were they going through? How did they make the decisions they made? That to me is a more interesting way to approach something, rather than saying this person is a villain and that person is this and - because it's not very interesting to play that anyway.

Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.

I enjoy it when characters love each other. It's more interesting, actually - it's less predictable.

I've been lucky and have played some interesting characters - I'd quite like to play Sweeny Todd.

People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.

I think with the 'Fresh Prince,' there were all of these really interesting personalities and characters, and yet there's so much love in that household.

For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.

Characters stretching their legs in some calm haven generally don't make for interesting protagonists.

The most interesting thing about characters are their blind spots. They miss the periphery.

I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.

Those elements that make 'Catfish' so interesting to watch, elements of deception and mystery, make any movie or any piece of content exciting to watch. It makes characters complex and interesting.

That's what politics is. It's the story of what's happening, what does it mean, what's the conclusion, who are the interesting characters?

It's such an easy thing with characters who are the friends of the main person to make their love subpar or not interesting or not developed.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.