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BEBE NEUWIRTH
There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writ... JULIA GLASS
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The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those sta... ARISTOTLE
There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of... KURT VONNEGUT
For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of be... SARAH MACLEAN But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I nev...
DOUGLAS SIRK I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters a...
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What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting char... MIKE BIRBIGLIA I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and i...
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DAMIAN LEWIS Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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In my own work, I don't have favorite characters, but I have characters that I relate to the mos... CASSANDRA CLARE Interactive storytelling emphasizes a personal connection with the characters. It is a powerful tool...
DAVE MORRIS
All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the ... ALICE HOFFMAN
The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same... NICOLAS CAGE
We must remember that there’s more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as m... WALTER MOSLEY
I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present t... RANDY QUAID I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my u...
ROBERT BOSWELL My characters are at their best, when I let them lead
CATHERINE DORSETTE I think, the first time I played Iago at the Public Theater, I realized I had a - much to my chagrin...
LIEV SCHREIBER
'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger complim... BAILEY CHASE The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses t...
GEOFF JOHNS
I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. Th... G.K. CHESTERTON
This is the image from which he was born...... Characters are not born, like people, of woman; they ... MILAN KUNDERA
I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessaril... CLIVE OWEN
When you create those characters that people love and care about and put them in a dark hallway, alr... JAMES WAN All of my characters are less than perfect.
BARBARA PARK Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjo...
SACHA BARON COHEN My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accuse...
ADAM RAPP
There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discover... HANNAH KENT I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history ...
FRANCES BURNEY I'm much more low-key than the characters I've played.
MATT LEBLANC It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more...
CARLISLE FLOYD
The characters that I play are real. They are real so they have as much right to be portrayed as any... ROBERT DE NIRO
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small event... SARA ZARR I try not to think too much about where my voice comes from. I'm channeling characters and emoti...
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I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necess... CLIVE OWEN Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much m... JACKIE COLLINS
I was worried for a while that it was some sort of reflection of me that all I seemed to be getting ... TORREY DEVITTO
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is h... MEL BROOKS
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is... MEL BROOKS I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters...
DONALD E. WESTLAKE
Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people ... JOHN LASSETER The great thing about working in cable is that, since the season is truncated - we only do 12 shows ...
JIMMY SMITS I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I star...
TAYARI JONES
In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It'... BILLY CRYSTAL
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary. FRANKLIN P. ADAMS
The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of th... MILAN KUNDERA Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my fir...
IRVIN D. YALOM I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling st...
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I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges. ANITA DESAI I think the novel, the story and the characters are quite universal.
CHRIS WEITZ The subsequent story that follows the wedding leaves us with a lot more to explore with these two ch...
TONY WOOD
I always find it actually funny that the analysis is that the characters I play in comedies are the ... WILL FERRELL My face lends itself to austere characters, and unless they're two-dimensional, I will do them. ...
CHARLES DANCE With independent film, simply because they don't have the money to make a big-budget film, they&...
SEYMOUR CASSEL My favorite thing about acting is that I can play all kinds of different people. Frankly, I don'...
NATHAN KRESS The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as a...
GARTH ENNIS Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the liv...
TERRY BROOKS For me it's a European-type movie, ... It's a small story about family and it's these kinds of chara...
DANNY AIELLO Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to ...
RED HAIRCROW
Crazy things sometimes happen. Do you get my drift? I can't say that everything in the story is comp... NICHOLAS SPARKS I get very tired of books that feel emotionally empty. I would much rather have writers err on the s...
ALEXI ZENTNER My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, ...
BARRY JENKINS The characters that aren't what they seem to be or women who are stronger than people give them ...
VALORIE CURRY
I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls tha... ANGELINA JOLIE
You put books out into the world, and people form their own visuals and images and attachments to ch... CASSANDRA CLARE The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as represent...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER
No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. I... ROGER ROSENBLATT
People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can ... KEN FOLLETT Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies ...
LARRY COHEN
Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any re... ANTHONY MARRA
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complic... MELISSA GILBERT The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it beca...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE
The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. PAUL AUSTER
Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and ... KARIN SLAUGHTER If I seem detached or distant, it's because I think this is a more exact reproduction of life, where...
ISABELLE HUPPERT There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.
DAN SCANLON Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of chara...
NANCY KRESS I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'
LORRIE MOORE Personally, I am thrilled that I can now let my characters clasp a rosary, mention confession or inv...
REGINA DOMAN My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters b...
FORTUNE FEIMSTER
Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is righ... DAVID BERGEN I like that these characters aren't perfect. I love that there are all these strong female character...
ANDY YARDLEY
For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters.... TERRY PRATCHETT My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting character...
HAROLD RAMIS I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is d...
SARAH ZETTEL The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but i...
JAMES RANDI
I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of... HERMANN HESSE I do remember being a fan of the Marvel characters and not liking the DC characters at all.
ALFRED MOLINA There is a similarity in the kinds of characters I gravitate to that goes back to my earliest years ...
EUGENE LEVY Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
DAMIAN LEWIS I try to get them out of (playing) characters that are in high school. I try to get them thinking, t...
LAURA MEYER
