#characters

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#alive #author #before #characters #does

If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#characters #each #getting #look #other

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#consisted #either #fiction #general #having

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#context #everything #historical #important #interest

With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#both #characters #engaged #enough #great

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#environments #form #hard #incredibly #kitchens

When I was a kid, there were hardly any gay story lines or characters on television that I recall. Then when I was in college, 'Will & Grace' started up. ↗

— Andrew Rannells

#any #characters #college #gay #grace

On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#characters #connect #course #enjoyment #film

When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters. ↗

— Nikki Reed

#already #attached #because #become #been

I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in. ↗

— Patricia Richardson

#audience #because #believable #characters #draw