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“I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.”

Author:Mae Whitman

“My father and mother are both very smart people and I always felt I was a little short of the mark. So I would compensate with a character like Logan Cale. He's wearing glasses, he's in a wheelchair, he's a computer genius. He's very far away from who I am, but I really wanted to play roles where I'd be taken seriously.”

People Littles Play Character Wanted Mother Father Felt Roles Taken Genius Computer Smart Mark Glasses Who I Am Far Away Smart People Very Smart Wheelchairs

Author:Michael Weatherly

“I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas.”

Ends Whole Character Feelings Reality Lost Stuff Loses Comedy Emotional Empty Connections Viewers Strain Bananas Emotional Connection Funny Stuff

Author:Mike White

“My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.”

World Trying Character Compassion Approach Impulse Aesthetic Humanistic

Author:Mike White

“Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.”

World Writing Made Character Easier Backgrounds Hardest Limitation

Author:Walter Jon Williams

“If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.”

Ifs Knows Littles Character America Fantastic Charlie Orphan Annie Chaplin

Author:Marguerite Young

“I actually did an Agatha Christie monologue for my audition showcase at Guildhall, and that's how I got my agent. Some people said 'ooh it's old hat' and 'too risky'. Some people think she's all about the narrative and thriller aspect at the expense of character and I disagree. I did it anyway and it worked well.”

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Author:Thomas Howes

“There's also something happening in television similar to what happened in the '80s, when people stopped taking so many drugs and wanted to hear real instruments in music again. I think people want plot, story and characters. Those are more important than having a big star.”

People Thinking Want Important Real Character Stories Bigs Wanted Stars Happened Television Drug Happenings Instruments Plot 80s

Author:Jessica Pare

“There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.”

Writing Character Levels Tvs Female Deeper Female Characters Sophistication

Author:Vera Farmiga

“When you play a character with power and energy, people lock into that and go, "Oh, this must be the guy."”

People Play Character Guy Energy Locks

Author:Jeremy Piven

“Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.”

“I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Character Stories Action Hate Turns Novel Alive Pages Understood Hundred Skins I Hate Twenties Agree Thirty Shed Snakes I Am Alive

Author:Kenneth Patchen

“All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.”

Knows Needs Giving Writing Character Goal

Author:J.A. Konrath

“You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say clearly and concisely. It's far more difficult to get people to think like a writer, to give up conventional habits of mind and emotion. You must be able to step inside your character's skin, and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into.”

“...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care about, who have no self-respect and no respect for anybody or any institution....And I don't want to sound preachy or Victorian, but I'm tired of amorality in fiction and in real life. Immorality is a fascinating human dilemma that creates suspense for the readers and tension for the characters, but where is the tension in an amoral situation? When people have no personal code, nothing is threatening and nothing is meaningful.”

“Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on”

Enough Character Moving Broken Forgiveness Grudge Moving On In Life Forgive And Move On Broken Relationship

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements.”

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Author:Vance Havner

“He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-ending story of young girls losing themselves, such that they were no longer humans with any souls or characters, but pretty girls with fat asses and nice tits.”

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Author:Jess C Scott

“It's not a character flaw to become an adult.”

Character Adults Flaws Character Flaws

Author:Kenneth Lonergan

“Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.”

Giving Character Film Week Fronts Behavior Six Cameras Intimate

Author:Linda Lavin

“What it comes down to is I don't mind if Superman kills people because he has no reason not to kill people. I know that one of the tenets of the character is that he doesn't, but the reason that he doesn't is because having that much power makes you responsible for weaker people.”

People Ifs Knows Mind Reason Character Responsible No Reason

Author:Max Landis

“I feel like a character actress - it's where I'm comfortable.”

Feels Character Comfortable Actresses

Author:Melanie Lynskey

“The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.”

Whole Character Film Spirit Accidents Theme Location

Author:Mike Leigh

“I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character.”

Thinking Character Successful Idols Really Inspiring

Author:Miranda Lambert

“The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying "Destiny." For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.”

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Author:Nastia Liukin

“I think I'm a character actress in a leading lady's body, but the industry doesn't really see me that way.”

Thinking Way Character Body Industry Actresses Leading Ladies

Author:Sanaa Lathan

“I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.”

Done Character Film Stuff Roles Tvs Type Hollywood Theater Leading Ladies

Author:Sanaa Lathan

“I really prefer the actual experience of being onstage and living the character from beginning to end with the energy of the audience. There's nothing that beats that feeling, and yet I really have trouble with the eight shows a week.”

Ends Character Shows Feelings Energy Audience Trouble Week Beats Eight

Author:Sanaa Lathan

“But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.”

Character Roles

Author:Sheryl Lee

“I think every time there's a show like 'Modern Family' or 'Will & Grace' that portray gay and lesbian characters and is successful, it just further opens the door.”

Thinking Character Shows Successful Grace Doors Modern Gay Modern Family

Author:Steven Levitan

“With drama, especially, it seems like the bigger the budgets and the edgier the characters, the more interesting they are. We're very lucky because 'Modern Family' wouldn't fit on cable: they'd want us to push it more and be edgier and turn it into something that it's not.”

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Author:Steven Levitan

“I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.”

Character Dying Lead Characters Henry V

Author:Ted Lange

“I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters.”

Feels Wells Character Shows Actors

Author:Thomas Lennon

“I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.”

Writing Firsts Persons Character First Person

Author:Wally Lamb

“Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.”

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Author:Zachary Levi

“Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.”

Different Character Jobs Film Months Couple Involved Luck Really Cool Different Characters

Author:Zachary Levi

“I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.”

People Thinking Knows World Character Our World

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.”

People Way Want Children Character Parent Roles Written Fields South Entertainment Asian Lament

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.”

Character Arbitrary Good And Bad

Author:Anson Mount

“I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.”

Long Character Able Form Love Is Television Periods Format Long Periods Of Time

Author:Anson Mount

“I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.”

Character Care Clear Don't Care I Don't Care Sympathy I Care

Author:Anson Mount

“It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.”

Character Southern

Author:Anson Mount

“If you're playing your character and you're running into all these people who know who you are and treat you in a way that doesn't pertain at all to the character, it takes you out of it more, so when you're alone in a city where people don't know you, you can kind of pretend even more and get into the head space of where you need to be.”

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Author:Chris Messina

“'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.”

People Sometimes Character Evil Term Blanket Demonic

Author:David Morrissey

“There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.”

Persons Different Character Seeing Vanity

Author:Elisabeth Moss

“I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they would be in a man's world and have to deal with that, and it creates a lot of interesting storylines. For me, it's kind of circumstantial, but I definitely enjoy it.”

Thinking Men World Writing Kind Character Would Be Actors Enjoy Interesting Deals Males Tendencies Really Interesting Interesting Characters Storyline

Author:Elisabeth Moss

“I think I enjoy playing human beings no matter the substance of their character.”

Thinking Humans Matter Character Enjoy Human Beings Substance

Author:Ezra Miller

“I love 'Batman.' I love the Adam West 'Batman.' I love the animated 'Batman.' The character of Batman can encompass any interpretation, which is what makes that character so brilliant and why it's survived so many different media.”

Different Character Media West Brilliant Interpretation Adam Survived Animated

Author:Grant Morrison

“The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies.”

Men Character Mets Only Time X Men Magneto

Author:Grant Morrison

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