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Tag Name "Characters" (2806)

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Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.
John Slattery
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Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure if they obstruct it, they are characterized as simply villainous or cowardly. Hence every typical character...tends to have his moral opposite confronting him, like black and white pieces in a chess game.
Northrop Frye
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Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.
Sylvester Stallone
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Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.
Antonio Banderas
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Characters in animation do not cheat. They do not let you go for another. Animation is on certain points, very close to the pornography industry. All your physical needs are met. You can watch different animations and find anything you desire.
Hideaki Anno
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Characters aren't a fling. They aren't a one-night stand. Getting to know them takes time and hard work. It takes excessive free writes and multiple experiments.
Margaret Foley
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Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.
Michael Zaslow
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Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that makes the novel possible. Change the limits and the force leaves. The novel becomes impossible.
Alexander Chee
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Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.
Jeanne Moreau
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Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking (because of its greater inner importance to the plot) than what they arrive at saying.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.
Robert Gregory Browne
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Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.
Eudora Welty
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Characters are born from necessity.
Christopher Paolini
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Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as real life, do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not speak to conceal themselves. They speak to get whatever it is that they want. It is the only reason they speak.
David Mamet
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Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.
Tommy Lee Jones
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Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.
Michael Tippett
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Even though I had a great deal of respect for children's TV and theatre, it wasn't my intent to specialize solely in that area. I did indeed want to work on shows like Sesame Street and I am honored to be even a small part of that legacy, but I also wanted to do characters that had wider vocabulary and satirical humor.
Stephanie D'Abruzzo
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The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun. And when I say somebody else, of course I mean Jason Bateman. He's born to play boring characters because he's such a bore. He's one of the most boring human beings.
Will Arnett
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You have to play your characters, not like them.
John Malkovich
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
Wally Lamb
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If you cant laugh at your own characters, or shed a tear for them, or even get angry at one of them, no one else will either.
Johanna Lindsey
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I love playing real characters... if they're not around anymore it's helpful because you won't get sued! But there's so much research involved and I love that part of the process.
Andy Serkis
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Writers tend to hate recurring characters there's this writer snob thing about it. But I don't have that. I feel like the challenge is always to find a cool and innovative way to do it and, obviously, to not repeat your jokes.
Ana Gasteyer
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