Quotes with characters

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  • Anne Tyler It's true that it's a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Caroline Dhavernas It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Ben Whishaw Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.
    Ben Whishaw
    English actor (1980 - )
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  • Carlisle Floyd Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Brendan Gleeson Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Anita Desai Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Alexander Pope Most women have no characters at all.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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W. Bruce Cameron My main characters are the most sunny, happy, optimistic, loving creatures on the face of the Earth. I couldn't be happier that's where I start. I can put as many flawed people in the dog's world as I like, but the dog doesn't care. Dog doesn't judge. Dog doesn't dislike. Dog loves. That's not so bad.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • Anne Rice Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Avi Arad Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Boman Irani Once, Naseeruddin Shah told me that the wafer shop was the best acting school that I could have attended. And I completely agree. I observed every customer very minutely and picked up some quirk or the other. Later, I used those experiences while playing different characters.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Bryan Fuller One of the things that's important for anybody adapting source material that is primarily a male buddy picture is to find ways to latch on to strong female characters in the piece and bring them to the forefront and celebrate their point of view alongside the men; otherwise, it becomes a sausage party, and it's a singular point of view.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Bonnie Hunt Over the years, if you look at the films of people like Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, their supporting characters, even if it's a doorman with two lines, always seem three-dimensional. To me, that's a sign of good storytelling.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Bebe Neuwirth Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • Blair Redford People like casting me as these characters who definitely have an edge to them, but I don't really think 'bad boy' is something anyone can say about themselves without sounding stupid.
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason Rock and roll is about desire, about wanting something better. I think my characters all want something better. My understanding of the rock and roll dream is that a kid in an isolated place or a small town or an underprivileged world could transcend it somehow.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Plato States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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