#characters

Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#characters #feels #less #life #life is a

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself. ↗

— Tony Shalhoub

#characters #far #film #i #i do

I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#bad #bad guys #characters #community #everybody

There are great characters on television. ↗

— Penelope Ann Miller

#great #television

I do remember being a fan of the Marvel characters and not liking the DC characters at all. ↗

— Alfred Molina

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I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#before #characters #determined #go #going

I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales. ↗

— Mike Myers

#actress #characters #check #different #different characters

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

#after #artificial #away #bestowed #characters

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard. ↗

— Edward Norton

#because #characters #contradictory #easily #fun

I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles. ↗

— Edward Norton

#i #i think #inner #lot #people