Top 599 Characters Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Characters Quotes from famous people such as Joe Morton, Ali Smith, Kirti Kulhari, Steve Erickson, Tessa Thompson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I think the thing is with a movie that has this much sc

I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.
Joe Morton
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.
Ali Smith
In theatre, you rehearse for months and then perform. That way, you’re totally in-sync with your character, the other characters, and the story.
Kirti Kulhari
The instant that movies became described as character driven was the instant when characters stopped mattering in movies. In other words, the birth of the notion of the character-driven movie coincided with the birth of movies in which characters were incidental to the very activities in which they engaged.
Steve Erickson
Even while I’m really interested in playing female characters that are varied and interesting and dynamic, I’m not of the mind that you always want to play strong female characters. I think I just want to play characters that are interesting, and not all people are ‘strong.’
Tessa Thompson
M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.
Loretta Swit
In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.
Madeline Kahn
The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I’m concerned.
Tim Roth
I try to write about real women, real people – in other words flawed characters.
Emily Giffin
When I started my own podcast, I realized I definitely wanted to do characters.
Paul F. Tompkins
Looking at the Batman pages is like revisiting my youth. My first seven years in New York were the first seven years of Batman itself. While my time on Batman was important and exciting and notable considering the characters that came out of it, it was really just the start of my life.
Jerry Robinson
006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.
Sean Bean
Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They’re so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.
D. J. Cotrona
I’m drawn to projects where I play these really complicated characters, but also where I can have some type of influence on affecting what we see as societal norms.
Rami Malek
Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.
Mani Ratnam
I want to be remembered by the characters I do.
Aishwarya Lekshmi
The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well.
Rupert Grint
I admire the world of the books and the characters that she’s created, but I’m not an addict of Harry Potter. I don’t feel possessive about it.
Ralph Fiennes
For me, one of the most beautiful and rewarding aspects of serial reality TV is that characters can move freely along a spectrum of heroism and villainy.
Andrea Seigel
Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
Steve Buscemi
The first script I got was Narc and I really responded to it; it reminded me of a ’70s type movie, I really liked the characters, I didn’t anticipate the ending.
Ray Liotta
Being of Indian heritage is a challenge – and it’s a blessing as well sometimes – because being good isn’t good enough. You have to be exceptional to play different characters.
Sacha Dhawan
Choreographing a fight scene is telling a little story. You learn a lot about the characters involved.
David Leitch
I’m very excited to see the wonderful 2-D characters in Poptropica come to life in the form of 3-D toys. When I first held the characters in my hands, it felt like magic. I’m excited for kids to have the same feeling!
Jeff Kinney
I’ve played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy.
Thayer David
I seem to voice a lot of sweet, kind of dumb yellow characters for some reason.
Tom Kenny
I am really happy that even though I am stuck in the comedy genre I have not been typecast. I am still getting to experiment a lot with my characters, which is a boon.
Neha Pendse
The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They’ve become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.
Azim Premji
I don’t think there is just one Louis Vuitton woman. That is why, for the fall/winter 2011 show, I loved the idea of lots of different characters – a wife, a mistress, a girlfriend – stepping out of the row of hotel elevators.
Marc Jacobs
Tennis is fake. We have real characters, but they don’t dare to be themselves, and the code of conduct has a lot to do with that.
Patrick Mouratoglou
Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
Jack Levine
In many ways, it's easier to write a book. You have mor

In many ways, it’s easier to write a book. You have more latitude with structure, and you have the freedom to luxuriate within the internal lives and musings of your characters. But where a screenplay does not always demand great prose, a novel lives or dies by it.
John Fusco
What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.
Paulo Coelho
I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It’s a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.
Patricia MacLachlan
For a long time, I’ve loved the kind of characters who are boastful yet petty. I was originally a gag manga artist, after all.
Akira Toriyama
‘Star Wars’ is very black and white, and honestly, I like it that way. But fantastical settings like that work best when the characters within them feel real. Real people have conflicts and make mistakes and get it wrong sometimes.
Claudia Gray
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Khalil Gibran
I’m so sick of hearing how there’s no strong roles for women. I don’t care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there’s some depth there.
Martha Plimpton
The Slobs were written in a very 2D way, but Kathy Burke brought a touching quality to all her characters.
Harry Enfield
A Fantastic Woman’ has been seen as very interesting and entertaining. The film has had very good reactions. We are very surprised and delighted how the characters have connected with so many people.
Daniela Vega
I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.
Michael Chabon
When you begin a play, you’re going to have to spend a lot of time with those characters, so those characters are going to have to be rich enough that you want to take a very long journey with them. That’s how I begin thinking about what I want to write about and who I want to write about.
Lynn Nottage
When I do negative characters on screen, people love it. In fact, people look forward to it.
Sudha Chandran
If you read the script, and the character’s got something in it that you relate to, then I am keen. But I really think, a lot of the time, my successful auditions are those where I really care about the characters.
Georgina Campbell
I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they’re in the screen.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
I try not so much to create new characters and worlds but to create new game-play experiences.
Shigeru Miyamoto
For us, a lot of the cartoon and crazy stuff on ‘F Is for Family’ is tertiary characters; it happens on the television in the show. We try to keep whatever problem the Murphy family is dealing with rooted as much as we can in reality.
Bill Burr
I don’t know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little bit of the fairy tale. Let others photograph the ugliness of the world. I don’t want to distress people.
Leo McCarey
I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that’s my instinct.
Kate Burton
I love the female characters in ‘She-Ra.’ There isn’t another show quite like it.
Noelle Stevenson
Actually the copies of characters is something I don’t particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there’s only one.
Jim Henson
And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters. David put together a show that told the story of people over many years’ time and that was greatly enjoyable. Though nowadays that is frowned upon.
William Devane
‘Girl in the City Chapter 2’ will still continue to revolve around Meera Sehgal and her life, her friends, and her passion. The stark difference in ‘Chapter 2’ will be that all the characters have now grown up in the series – in terms of maturity if not so much age.
Mithila Palkar
I had been thinking for a while about how bored and tired I was of playing straight-down-the-middle everymanish characters that have what I call white guy problems. And I missed playing characters who lacked dignity and more importantly, lacked social skills.
Justin Long
I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.
Vladimir Nabokov