I am one of the new characters in the brand new series of ‘Postman Pat.’ It has been a joy to do.

European films were what it was about for me – the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can’t really find in American films.

I’ve been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I’ve done have been very different, and all the characters I’ve done have been very different. I feel very lucky...

I don’t know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple...

Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

French Louis Seymour of the West Canada Creek, who knew how to survive all alone in a treacherous wilderness, and Mr. Alfred G. Vanderbilt of New York City and Raquette Lake, who was richer than...

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.”(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)

We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect for them. A good writer won’t waste their time arguing with...

I’ve had some marvelous parts, but I’m also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

And well historically it’s never been a good thing to compare yourself to biblical characters.

Characters have to be seen and felt when written, not told about. Writers are merely vessels of their manifestations.

I don’t exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it’s just that a lot of those roles come my way.

I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.

The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses. Icy silence in the coach. Marius, motionless, his body braced in the corner of the carriage, his head dropping down upon his...

I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way...

Everyone is a lead actor cum director of his own movie called life and any sensible director believes strongly always in playing out a good character through a lead actor for making his movie a...

I like characters who have faults. I’m drawn to darker people.

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater ‘Emperor’ of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

Usually, characters that are doing something nefarious have some extra layers to them. The general rule is bad people don’t necessarily think they are bad.

You’re the girl that I have been wanting. You’re the girl that I could see myself with forever. And most importantly, you’re the girl that I’ve fallen in love with.

Addicts don’t like when you tell them they are all the same. Of course not. Who would? But to me, addicts are like actresses, who all audition for the same role in a horror movie....

I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all their good or bad qualities, and so if a person is nasty or bad or cruel, you...

I like characters that make me feel challenged and sort of inspired.

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.

I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don’t swear, they tell their mothers everything.

As an actor, it’s amazing to get to create different characters.

I’ve played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren’t their movies.

I always talk about my characters like they’re real people.

You’ve either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you’ve got to put more emphasis on the suspects.

We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they’re peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.

Meeting everyone you wanted to know in the small surf industry, I saw how the surf trade was made up of characters that not only surfed, but were able to develop a business out of...

I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.

The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and...

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...

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!”(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)

I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters – these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

A book is simply a snap shot of the full story.

I think one of the things you have to learn if you’re going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.

We are all characters in the book of life.

You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny.

There are two characters in me: a doodler and a tuner. And the only thing that makes me go crazy is when they both fight for their turn.

Stories start in all sorts of places. Where they begin often tells the reader of what to expect as they progress. Castles often lead to dragons, country estates to deeds of deepest love (or of...

Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters.

The time for a person to instantly interact with his own soul, inspect his own mind and introspect with his own heart to identify his true quality of life is when too many people are...

I think I have so much more to accomplish in this world of acting. There are many different types of characters I want to play. I want to keep making people laugh, and I want...

Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.