There are stages we all go through when dealing with character deaths. Grief. Anger. Denial. Laughter. Coulson.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

A winner is not someone who wins. It’s someone who tries and isn’t afraid to lose.

The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in a play. I say to myself, if a big name were playing this part,...

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

I’ve had the opportunity to do a wide range of stuff, a lot of different characters and they’ve all had their own kind of thing.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didnt have those things in...

If you’re silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to do is listen to the other characters.

I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.

In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types of jokes, reacted the same, etc. I think they were all just me...

The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do.

I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.

The nicest characters in ‘A Week in December’ are, in fact, Muslims – and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them.

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.

I think my characters are more wish fulfillments than they are mirrors. They see things I don’t and live in a world I can only enter through words.

A person’s hope does not drop really till he could not stop to believe truly in himself.

I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man’s body.

Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to relate to what he or she is going through or...

Truth is irrelevant; what matters is what people believe.

Even in horror novels where you know most characters aren’t going to make it to the end, it’s crucial to have fully fleshed-out characters. If you don’t do that, the reader doesn’t care what happens...

The best stories come from deep within us and are of us. Either our inner child comes out to play and makes all things possible, or we mold our characters and events from our own...

The only way you can talk about this great tide in which you’re a participant is as Schopenhauer did: the universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream...

‘Homeland’ really is one of those shows where they start to write more or less depending on what’s kind of going on in a relationship between characters.

do not exist,” or in any case do not exist in the same way as do the inhabitants of the real world. But things manifest in an entirely different way on the unconscious level, which...

I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people would feel.

I’m 20 years old. I spend my days in a dictionary and half my mind in Fantasy.

They say a writer is not a single person, it is a bunch of characters. What I learned from life is that everyone is a bunch of characters, characters who live and die within us....

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

It is sometimes the minor, not the major, characters in a novel who hold the author’s affection longest. It may be that one loses affection for the major characters because they suck off so much...

In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.

I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there’s so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world.

Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

I’ve been lucky to play characters that are really broad.

I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you...

Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking.

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

The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren’t any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the reader’s head,...

I guess, what I’m saying is that when I’ve been this surprised by my own characters and world, all bets are off.

Every actor will tell you it’s so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act;Sow an act, and you reap a habit;Sow a habit, and you reap a character;Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Over the years I have forged intimate familial ties with these characters, who are reflections of a portion of myself. Consequently, even a character who appeared only once in a short story waits now in...

I would say that a lot of the characters I’ve been attracted to are very vulnerable and they expose themselves emotionally. Not so much in ‘The Fighter,’ not so much in ‘The Master’ – I...

A mistake is the name we give to any action in which we perceive a difference between what we intended and what has occurred. Intention fuels every dramatic action, including the writing of dramatic stories,...

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

Just me, my music, and the voices in my head.

As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!