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  • You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.
  • That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.
  • Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
  • And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.
  • Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
  • Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
  • When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
  • I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin.
  • Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
  • Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess I became an actor - because you get to create a persona that's bigger or better or more interesting than your own.
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  • Mel Brooks Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
    ― Mel Brooks
    American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and composer (1926 - )
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  • Bailey Chase 'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
    ― Bailey Chase
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Carlton Cuse 'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
    ― Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Ben Platt 'Pitch Perfect 2' is about the Bellas and what happens to them as they get older. All your favorite characters are coming back. Chrissie Fit was great, and Hailee Steinfeld is such a pro - she fit right in. I had no idea she was 17! She's the most mature girl ever.
    ― Ben Platt
    American actor, singer, and songwriter (1993 - )
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  • Baltasar Kormakur 'The Oath' seems like the perfect project for me, coming off the back of a big-scale adventure film like 'Everest.' I want to delve into an intimate, dark and psychological world where the characters are claustrophobic.
    ― Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Byron Howard 'Zootopia' features such a large and diverse range of characters - one of our biggest casts ever for a Disney Animation film. We needed talented actors who could help bring these animals to life.
    ― Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Billy Collins A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'
    ― Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Brandon Lee Action-adventure, that genre, only works for me if you can care about the characters. If the hero's not taking some kind of a journey, then there are no stakes - and no stakes, then you don't care if he lives or dies, wins or loses.
    ― Brandon Lee
    American actor (1965 - 1993)
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  • Bryan Cogman After we map out all the main characters' individual arcs, using color-coded index cards, we arrange them by episode and get a rough idea of the scene order.
    ― Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
    ― Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Alice Hoffman 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.
    ― Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman 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.
    ― Alice Hoffman
     
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  • Immanuel Kant All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
    ― Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • Brian De Palma And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.
    ― Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Edward Hoagland Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.
    ― Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Camilla Luddington As a female there aren't too many characters that are very empowering, and there's something very empowering about Lara Croft. She kicks butt and she does it in style. She's confident and she's educated.
    ― Camilla Luddington
    British-American actress (1983 - )
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  • Barbara Rosenblat As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for this author's voice so that you will feel you have been on a seductive audio journey.
    ― Barbara Rosenblat
    British actress (1950 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are on concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
    Source: The Worlds Last Night (1952)
    ― C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Brandon Routh But so long as we can keep this crew of fantastic people together and can continue to make real breakthrough films in this category, as well as characters that stay true to what we've done in this first film, I'd be more than happy to be a part of it.
    ― Brandon Routh
    American actor (1979 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
    Source: An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920)
    ― Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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