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“Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in 'The Trusty' was going for water, I did not know that he would meet a fetching young farm wife until I got him into her front yard.”

Knows Sometimes Character Moving Young Waiting Water Wife Fronts Instance Farms Yards Moving Away

Author:Ron Rash

“In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a little bit more likable.”

Needs Littles Character Order Bits Levels Audience Little Bit Appeals

Author:Shawn Ryan

“Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.”

Thinking Knows Years Firsts Wells Character Wanted Guy Actors Gone Character Actors

Author:Stephen Root

“My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.”

Character Actors Roles Approach Autobiography Character Actors Supporting Roles

Author:Ving Rhames

“We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.”

Knows Firsts Wells Stills Ends Character Past Mystery Century First Time Speed Posts Flash Rolling Our Thoughts Bent Tweet Paragraph Know It All 140 Character Rolling Along

Author:Ali Smith

“The more limitations you put on a character often times the better a character you'll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can't simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework.”

Character Stories Hands Happens Interesting Wave Things Happen Limitation Framework

Author:Brandon Sanderson

“I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.”

Character Careers Player Baseball Blessed Wide Range Baseball Player

Author:Daniel Sunjata

“If you mentioned Hanna-Barbera to people, they said, "Oh yeah, Flintstone, Yogi, Scooby-Doo, Jetsons," and that was pretty much it. We have characters with very high recognition factors and great films, but no organized plans for really making the most of them and increasing their value.”

People Ifs Said Character Film Values Plans Yeah Factors Recognition Organized They Said Yogi Great Film Scooby Doo Flintstones

Author:Fred Seibert

“Viewers can hate a character and at the same time can't take their eyes off of him.”

Character Eye Hate Viewers

Author:John Slattery

“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.”

Knows Play Character Fall Easy Know How Five Television Goes On Walking Scene Seasons Assuming Boring Tricky

Author:John Slattery

“Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.”

Thinking Wells Littles Character Bits Pieces Little Bit Bits And Pieces

Author:Phyllis Smith

“My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.”

Men Writing Character Mother Father Parent Nice Reader Gentle Supportive Colorful Nice Man

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.”

Ideas Character Dialogue

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.”

Needs Character Fiction

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.”

People Want Character Realizing Involved Careful Be Careful

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.”

Way Different Play Character Darkness Lightness

Author:Alexander Skarsgard

“My characters always like themselves.”

Character

Author:Amy Sedaris

“When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.”

Writing Character Shows Jobs Voice

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.”

Character Comedy Willing Endure Humiliation Behalf

Author:Ben Stiller

“Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.”

People Sometimes Character Challenges Independent Scripts Compelling

Author:Brittany Snow

“Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Two Character Novel Neurotic

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“But I've always felt that the less you know about an actor's personal life, the more you can get involved in the story in which he's playing a character. And I don't like to see movies where you know about everything that happens behind the scenes. I can't engage in the story if I know what's going on in the actor's head.”

Ifs Knows I Can Character Stories Happens Actors Felt Behinds Involved Scene Personal Life Get Involved Behind The Scenes

Author:Eric Stoltz

“You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?”

Doe Character Interesting Roles Actresses Make Sense Peculiar

Author:Imelda Staunton

“When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'”

People Character Building

Author:John Sandford

“To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.”

People Men Looks Character Guy Tough Built Toms Cruise

Author:Jamie Foxx

“I've never played a character that would sing.”

Character

Author:Katey Sagal

“I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.”

Ifs Knows Way Believe Stills Sometimes Character Values Asks Moral Opinion Struggle Issues Media Responsible Don't Believe Censorship

Author:Katey Sagal

“It's great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if you will. Normally, you don't get that opportunity. The narrative of a movie usually demands that you are that guy from the start.”

Ifs Play Character Guy Opportunity Sides Dark Chance Demand Narrative Yellow That Guy Dark Side

Author:Mark Strong

“Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.”

Writing Made Character Born Exercise Flesh Free Will Volition Fictional Character

Author:John Banville

“Being an author means, almost by definition, that you make up characters and then complicate their lives. That's it, really. You make up characters and give them problem after problem after problem.”

Giving Writing Mean Character Problem Definitions

Author:Maureen Johnson

“The core of character lies in each individual story person's ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly that something is important.”

Feels Writing Persons Important Character Stories Care Lying Individual Ability Core

Book:Creating Characters: How to Build Story People

Source: Creating Characters: How to Build Story People

“I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief synopsis... Do what is comfortable. If you have to plot out every move your characters make, so be it. Just make sure there is a plausible purpose behind their machinations. A good reader can smell a phony plot a block away.”

Ifs Writing Book Character Moving Purpose Behinds Reader Comfortable Pages Ultimate Smell Block Novelists Plot Outlines Phony Plausible Synopsis

Author:Clive Cussler

“There can be, therefore, no true education without moral culture, and no true moral culture without Christianity. The very power of the teacher in the school-room is either moral or it is a degrading force. But he can show the child no other moral basis for it than the Bible. Hence my argument is as perfect as clear. The teacher must be Christian. But the American Commonwealth has promised to have no religious character. Then it cannot be teacher.”

Children Character Shows School Christian Culture Force Religious Perfect Rooms Education Moral Christianity Clear Teacher Argument Bases Commonwealth Degrading True Education

Author:Robert Dabney

“I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are.”

Feels Writing Trying Character Stories Eye Faces Term Expression Mouths Noses Theme Plot Discussing Story Writing

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did.”

Kind Character Actors Rooms Slave

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.”

Book Character Seems Crazy Excuse

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.”

Character Film Values Development Horror Connections Shining Favors Genre Shock Character Development Shock Value

Author:Joshua Leonard

“The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.”

Ifs Firsts I Can Character Practice Knowing Circumstances Research Connections Manifest

Author:Joshua Leonard

“It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible.”

Important Character Color

Author:Kelly Lynch

“The best compliment I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don't notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the TV show happens.”

Play Character Shows Happens Tvs Directors Producers Tv Shows Complement Notice Me

Author:J.K. Simmons

“First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.”

Knows Firsts Ends Enough Character Might Lasts Film Cases Pieces Materials Scene Flow Scripts Extremes

Author:Jean Stapleton

“I don't even like to show midriff - it's my characters who are always showing midriff.”

Character Shows

Author:Jennifer Sky

“It's something that people relate to - and I hope my kid doesn't relate to - but there's a level of believability in playing complex characters. You know, Christopher Walken has done some hilarious comedies, De Niro. There's great room for complexity and darkness to do well in comedies.”

People Knows Wells Done Character Kids Levels Rooms Darkness Comedy Complexes Relate Complexity De Niro Complex Characters Believability

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.”

Ifs Feels I Can Real Matter Character Action Interesting Reader Kings Regard Meetings Queens Plot Compelled Twists Meeting Someone Plot Twists

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.”

Ifs Years Looks Made Country Character Able Lasts Poverty Economy Progress Generations Example Grew Percent East Indian Asian 1960s Phenomenal Asian Countries

Author:Manmohan Singh

“Well, it was very interesting to play a character and stretch it over such a long time - 12 episodes. I had never done a TV show before, so week to week it was unclear what we would be asked to do.”

Wells Long Done Play Character Shows Would Be Interesting Week Tvs Long Time Episodes Tv Shows Very Interesting Unclear

Author:Nick Stahl

“I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.”

People Character Able Stage Fronts Like Me Shy

Author:Romeo Santos

“To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.”

Character Actors Findings Screens Casting

Author:Rupert Sanders

“It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.”

Knows Way Whole Character Film Arcs

Author:Sissy Spacek

“Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.”

Littles Character House Rich Thousand Texas Airplane Truck Cattle Acres Pickups Pickup Trucks

Author:Sissy Spacek

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