#characters

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

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In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them. ↗

— Todd Solondz

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I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

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I very seldom, very seldom, even know what my characters look like. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

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I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures. ↗

— Regina Spektor

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M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect. ↗

— Loretta Swit

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SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays. ↗

— Eric McCormack

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I would take lots of falls and you know, get shot three or four times and this sort of thing, so all that sort of stuff. And there are tussles with various characters. I like that kind of thing. ↗

— Marton Csokas

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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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