Top 1200 Minor Characters Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.

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

DC characters are from a different era than Marvel characters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 really enjoy playing intelligent characters. I'm more interested in that than just emotional kind of Mum characters.

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

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

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

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.

The chords in 'Light My Fire' are based on [John] Coltrane's version of this song. He just solos over A minor and B minor, which is exactly what we did. Coltrane had played with Miles on Kind of Blue and took the idea of modal soloing over one or two chords farther out than anybody. He was a real pioneer - he just kept evolving, going where no one had ever gone. He could always attain this state of ecstasy when he played. Live, there was so much energy, you couldn't believe it. He would play for hours. It was indescribable.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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