#hara

I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling. ↗

— Frances Burney

#behaviour #cannot #characters #history #i

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose! ↗

— Robert Burns

#cant #characters #decorum #lose #them

When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#characters #come #each #get #interact

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer. ↗

— Simon Callow

#becoming #characters #find #great #great writer

I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books. ↗

— Simon Callow

#anything #books #character #feature #get

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies. ↗

— L. Sprague de Camp

#advance #avoid #characters #contradictions #detail

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#characters #deep #four #half #half hours

You can escape into a character. ↗

— John Candy

#escape #into #you

'Save the Date' feels like a quiet story about two sisters and the men in their lives, kind of reminiscent of the quieter rom-coms of the 1990s; it's very character-driven and not as wedding-focused. ↗

— Lizzy Caplan

#character-driven #date #feels #kind #like

I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested. ↗

— Charisma Carpenter

#done #i #interested #mind #not interested