#characters

All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

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The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

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The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths. ↗

— Robert Aldrich

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I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow there's always a journey to go on. There's always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

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There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

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I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

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The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is. ↗

— Ruth Park

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One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

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

— Harold Ramis

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