All Quotes

My character from 'Panda Eyes,' Fay, is the character I see myself in a lot.
‐‐ Sophie Turner

My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.
‐‐ Gregory Hines

My character has always been important to me. That was the one thing that I knew, no matter what, I had to hold that strong.
‐‐ Derek Fisher

My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
‐‐ Tao Okamoto

My character in 'Casa de mi Padre' is an ambitious woman. I had never played that kind of character before.
‐‐ Genesis Rodriguez

My character in 'Cocktail' was different from my personality. Homi Adajania took me to London, showed me how girls dress and behave there. I had not seen that kind of lifestyle before.
‐‐ Deepika Padukone

My character in 'Fresh Meat' is quite prim and tidy, and then I basically had no make-up for the whole shoot of 'Kidnap and Ransom' - apart from a bit of Vaseline to make me look even sweatier!
‐‐ Kimberley Nixon

My character in 'La Haine,' he's not bad; he's unhappy, and usually, people are like that. Most of us are angry.
‐‐ Vincent Cassel

My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness.
‐‐ Annette Bening

My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.
‐‐ Carey Mulligan

My character in 'The Caller' is very normal.
‐‐ Stephen Moyer

My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.
‐‐ Hailee Steinfeld

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.
‐‐ Harrison Ford

My character is not flawless.
‐‐ Breckin Meyer

My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.
‐‐ Chiaki Kuriyama

My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.
‐‐ Emily Watson

My character Milly in 'The Boy Who Could Fly' was a very strong part. There were dramatic moments, and there were humorous moments, too. The whole story with Eric Underwood's character was just wonderful, and the messages behind the script were very important to me.
‐‐ Lucy Deakins

My character on 'I'm In the Band,' Derek Jupiter of Iron Weasel, is definitely one of the crazier ones. That's completely on the other end of the spectrum. There's absolutely nothing like Derek any shape or form. I'm having so much fun playing this egotistical, '80s-era rockstar - everything he does is from the point-of-view of a rockstar.
‐‐ Steve Valentine

My character on 'Orange is the New Black' is not one that requires being absolutely shredded with 5% body fat. But I wouldn't be opposed to doing that for a role one day.
‐‐ Matt McGorry

My character on 'The Good Wife' is a smaller character, and his story arcs are typically season-long, unless it's a big episode for him. His transitions take place over many, many hours.
‐‐ Graham Phillips

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.
‐‐ Jack Dee

My character's kind of grown up with Katniss. The beginning of the story, they're more or less brother and sister than anything. They're best friends. They've been keeping each other alive. It's a little frustrating, for the character. As the character, not as me.
‐‐ Liam Hemsworth

My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot.
‐‐ Monique Coleman

My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production.
‐‐ Claire Danes

My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes.
‐‐ Andrea Barber

My characteristics as a scientist stem from a non-conformist upbringing, a sense of being something of an outsider, and looking for different perceptions in everything from novels, to art to experimental results. I like complexity and am delighted by the unexpected. Ideas interest me.
‐‐ Peter C. Doherty

My characters all have issues, but I don't see that as weird or abnormal because I think in real life there are very few bland, normal people.
‐‐ Sophie Hannah

My characters always like themselves.
‐‐ Amy Sedaris

My characters always start well in movies. Almost every movie I've done starts with a happy marriage, it's all beautiful, wealthy, whatever... and then of course my husband leaves me, and everything falls apart.
‐‐ Carole Bouquet

My characters are all made up of pieces of people I have known, their backstories pieces of mine.
‐‐ Julia London

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.
‐‐ Jeanette Winterson

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
‐‐ Tahar Ben Jelloun

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
‐‐ S. E. Hinton

My characters are not plastic.
‐‐ Karen Kingsbury

My characters are not role-model Muslims, but they struggle to make choices using Muslim logic.
‐‐ Leila Aboulela

My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.
‐‐ Said Sayrafiezadeh

My characters are often without a significant parental figure.
‐‐ Jamie Bell

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
‐‐ Harold Ramis

My characters come from a good place.
‐‐ Seth Rogen

My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do, or thrown out.
‐‐ Elmore Leonard

My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.
‐‐ Joan Miro

My characters hope for better lives.
‐‐ Octavia E. Butler

My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book about them. Then, they become so real to me I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands.
‐‐ Judy Blume

My characters make incomprehensible decisions until you stand in their shoes. Then it makes more sense. Life is very rarely black and white, and most people are trying to do their best. I try not to judge.
‐‐ Jojo Moyes

My characters populate a big, vibrant world. Sometimes they rub shoulders. Sometimes they don't.
‐‐ Julie Kenner

My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.
‐‐ Laurell K. Hamilton

My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

My characters who come back from death are worse for wear. In some ways, they're not even the same characters anymore. The body may be moving, but some aspect of the spirit is changed or transformed, and they've lost something.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin

My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.
‐‐ Thomas Peterffy