“Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go.” CharacterWantedGirlNiceHappenedSceneBedUniversalYeahTiedBeing NiceLet Her Go Author:Matthew McGrory
“I had wanted to be a regular character on a series for a while. 'The Brady Bunch' was an answer to a prayer.” CharacterWantedPrayerAnswersSeriesBunchBradyBrady Bunch Author:Susan Olsen
“I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the characters, and to turn it into a TV series. This would have allowed them to do anything they wanted with the characters, and that just wasn't an option for me.” YearsBookCharacterWantedTurnsRightsTvsSeriesRequestTurned DownTv Series Author:Louise Penny
“I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.” DifferentPlayCharacterWantedDifferent Characters Author:Stephanie Leonidas
“After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.” PeopleWritingCharacterWantedAnimalCreaturesCommunicateDragonsRecluseMythical CreaturesLioness Author:Tamora Pierce
“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.” ThinkingKnowsYearsFirstsWellsCharacterWantedGuyActorsGoneCharacter Actors Author:Stephen Root
“I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.” PeopleCharacterDreamActionWantedFightingScriptsAssFantasticKicksExplosionsChicksLeatherBlondeHeroinesKick Ass Author:Olivia Thirlby
“I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.” ThinkingWritingFirstsCharacterStoriesWantedNextStrongNovelFemaleDecidedFemale CharactersStrong Female CharactersStrong Female Author:Joan D. Vinge
“When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.” FirstsCharacterUseWould BeWantedAmericaSpeakLanguageFeltCenturyComicTiesFrank20th CenturyIdiom Author:Jim Woodring
“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.” PeopleLittlesPlayCharacterWantedMotherFatherFeltRolesTakenGeniusComputerSmartMarkGlassesWho I AmFar AwaySmart PeopleVery SmartWheelchairs Author:Michael Weatherly
“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.” PeopleThinkingWantImportantRealCharacterStoriesBigsWantedStarsHappenedTelevisionDrugHappeningsInstrumentsPlot80s Author:Jessica Pare
“My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers.” WritingCharacterWantedGirlPassionSoundInterestRichAirSmartMy FriendsDoctorsLawyerFilmmakerGossipBiggest FearHeiressGossip Girl Author:Cecily von Ziegesar
“I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out to California. Ive always really loved playing a part, playing a character and being someone else.” CharacterWantedOpportunitySevenCalifornia Author:Madison Davenport
“I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.” WorldWayShouldCharacterWantedStrongFemaleVery StrongFemale CharactersStrong Female CharactersStrong Female Author:Elizabeth Hand
“Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.” KindPlayCharacterWantedMotherCapableTragicFireflyLarger Than Life Author:Leslie Easterbrook
“I did The Seagull, the Chekhov play, on Broadway, a couple of years ago, and I had done it in London, and I became completely obsessed with the character, Nina, that I played in that. She's an actress. I couldn't find a play after that, that I wanted to do, because I couldn't think of doing anything else. Every part is a disappointment, once you've done that part.” ThinkingYearsDonePlayCharacterWantedCoupleYears AgoDisappointmentActressesLondonObsessedBroadwaySeagullChekhovNina Author:Carey Mulligan
“I wanted draw the cartoon characters, and then it all started to make sense as I was watching these classics come back to the theater like Lady and the Tramp and so forth. If you want to animated the dog, you have to know where the ribcage is and the hip bone and all that.” IfsKnowsWantCharacterWantedDogDrawsTheaterBonesHipsMake SenseCartoonAnimatedTrampsCartoon Character Author:Andreas Deja
“Journalists often ask me: "Aren't you sorry that after all the work you've done, you're best known as Magneto and Gandalf?" But that's what I've always wanted - not to be known as myself. I want to draw attention to the characters.” WantDoneCharacterWantedAsksAttentionKnownDrawsSorryJournalistAsk MeMagneto Author:Ian Mckellen
“I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.” CharacterWantedMy OwnStudySubjectsPaintPortraitsPortraiture Author:William Dobell
“I think a lot of people have seen me on The Simple Life and think I'm a "spoilt airhead," but I was playing a character. The producers said they wanted Nicole and I just to be crazy and funny and say outlandish things.” PeopleThinkingSaidCharacterWantedSimpleCrazyProducersSimple LifeBeing CrazyNicoleOutlandishSpoiltAirheads Author:Paris Hilton
“When the first emperor wanted to unify the country, one of the major policies was to create one system of written signs. By force, brutal force, he eliminated all the other scripts. One script became the official script. All the others were banned. And those who used other scripts were punished severely. And then the meanings of all the characters, over the centuries, had to be kept uniform as a part of the political apparatus. So from the very beginning the written word was a powerful political tool.” FirstsCountryCharacterWantedPoliticalUsedForcePowerfulWrittenCenturyPolicyMajorsToolsScriptsOfficialsBrutalUniformsEmperorBannedWritten Word Author:Ha Jin
“You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.” KnowsLooksBookDifferentCharacterWantedFacesSportsRoomsSawsDucksBubbaDifferent FacesFunny Book Author:Bubba Smith
“I read the script and I really liked it. It was high energy, crazy and it goes to any level to get people nuts and I thought Eve was an interesting character. At first I didn't get her, so it made me want to do the role because I wanted to dive in and see what she was about. On top of that I also wanted to work with Jason Statham because he's an amazing actor.” PeopleWantFirstsMadeCharacterWantedActorsEnergyInterestingLevelsRolesCrazyScriptsNutsJasonInteresting CharactersHigh Energy Author:Amy Smart
“Jen came first, and then they wanted to cast somebody that would... Kevin liked the idea of having a kind of The Ghost of That Character kind of haunt the movie in a way throughout, by having Raquel look so much like her. And also, it was sort of serendipity. I mean, she was also the best actress. I mean, as you can see Raquel has a pretty appealing, engaging kind of precocious, sparkly quality that's... it was just luck really that she happened to the film.” WayFirstsLooksKindMeanIdeasCharacterWantedFilmQualityHappenedLuckCastsActressesGhostEngagingLike HerSerendipityKevinPrecocious Author:Ben Affleck
“I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.” IdeasCharacterWantedDepth Author:Nicholas Lea
“A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.” MenTryingPlayCharacterBigsWantedSpiritualPoliticalSocialBoysJourneyDiscovery Author:Orlando Bloom
“The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.” IfsFirstsMadePlayCharacterWould BeWantedTalkingLaughingWrittenPhonesSydneyFiance Author:Victor Garber
“The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it.” WorldFeelsStillsBookCharacterWantedLiteratureInterestingGoes OnSeriesCasts Author:Fred Saberhagen
“I wanted to be funny for people who didn't care about fashion at all, to just to kind of exist as a silly character.” PeopleKindCharacterCareWantedFunnyFashionSilly Author:Ben Stiller
“I would love to do anything involving a good strong character, whether its in film, TV or theatre. My dream roles already been taken by Keira Knightley in Pride and Prejudice. Growing up, I really wanted to be Lizzie Bennett.” CharacterDreamWantedFilmStrongRolesGrowing UpTakenGrowingTvsPridePrejudiceTheatreInvolvingStrong Character Author:Roxanne McKee