#characters

I couldn't tell anyone how I felt because I knew they wouldn't understand. Oh, poor little Christina, falling for the bad man who treats her like dirt because she didn't know any better. And isn't it a pity that they don't still teach sex-ed in schools? Or, oh, Christina, that filthy slut, if she puts out for a man like that, I imagine she puts out for anyone. You stay away from her. It wasn't like that at all. Maybe it would have been easier if it was, just like ticking a box. Are you the Madonna, or the whore? The victim, or the vixen? The Sabine, or the skank? But nothing in life is ever that simple. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#female-characters #feminism #hypocrisy #life #purity

A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221 1/2 B Baker Street and didn't find him." [An Invitation to Learning, January 1942] ↗

— Rex Stout

#dickens #larger-than-life #novels #presence #realism

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths. ↗

— Jena Malone

#down #find #matter #small #strip

I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess. ↗

— Melissa McCarthy

#certainly #characters #confident #i #i love

Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma. ↗

— John C. McGinley

#characters #cox #cup #dirt #doctors

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. ↗

— Matthew McGrory

#bed #characters #chose #girl #go

It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest. ↗

— Graeme Murphy

#because #believe #characters #could #emotional

I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#characters #costume #hair #i #i do

You know it's my job to visualize, what is literal or audible, so I designed all the characters, and I designed what they do and how they should do it and so on. ↗

— Gerald Scarfe

#characters #designed #how #i #job

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself. ↗

— Frederick Wiseman

#characters #discover #i #like #me