#characters

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#characters #comes #i #i love #intimacy

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does. ↗

— Glenn Close

#does #else #even #love #play

It's not like I don't want to play the guy next door. But sometimes they're not the best written or the most complicated. But I am very, very particular about my bad boys. There are certain types of characters I will not play. I've said no so many times to so many parts that are just way too dark. You have to be careful. ↗

— Kim Coates

#am #bad #be careful #best #careful

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.' ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#characters #extensions #family #films #friends

Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters. ↗

— Elizabeth George

#characters #deal #essentially #events #grow

Aaron Echolls is one of the best characters that I've ever played. ↗

— Harry Hamlin

#best #characters #ever #i #played

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#because #characters #hardest #knowledge #live

Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#characters #even #i #itself #over

All of my characters have a glint of madness. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#madness

Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate. ↗

— Raymond E. Feist

#certain #characters #charm #choice #due