Fictional Character Quotes

• Todays youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their sore and yellow as this splendid mans creations have in mine!

  Peter Cushing

  Character, Impact, Yellow

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• If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

  Richard Bach

  Real, Character, Practice

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

  Penelope Lively

  Character, Occupation

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• The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

  John M. Ford

  Writing, Character, Use

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• I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Character, Confusion, Literature

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• I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are

  Suzanne Collins

  Anime, Pokemon, Birth

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• Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

  George R. R. Martin

  Hurt, Ice, Identity

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.60, Bantam

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• A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work through character, so helping the reader to feel close to fictional characters is the gate through which we have to usher the reader.

  Caryl Phillips

  Reading, Writing, Character

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• You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Character, Intense

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• It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

  Katherine Paterson

  Writing, Character, Prejudice

  Interview with Anna Umanskaya, www.nytimes.com. September 9, 2006.

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• As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences.

  Christopher Lee

  Character, Trying, World

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• The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience ... The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won't sue.

  Wallace Stegner

  Real, Character, Two

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• If we show fictional characters doing cool stuff, then girls will want to be it in real life.

  Geena Davis

  Girl, Real, Character

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I've never dated a fictional character before. The closest I ever came was an Italian.

  Woody Allen

  Character, Italian, Closest

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• I think that if you use something from you life in fiction, it metamorphosizes into something strange and different. Afterward it is hard to tell what actually was part of your life and what is part of the story of the fictional character.

  Marge Piercy

  Character, Thinking, Different

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• I love playing real people. It's a huge challenge and responsibility which I take on board and which I relish. It also scares me to death. Give me a totally fictional character and I don't have the same sort of responsibility. If, though, I play Sigmund Freud or Robert Maxwell or whoever then there is a responsibility.

  David Suchet

  Real, Character, Responsibility

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If you're playing a fictional character, you can create a character, you can sort of take certain liberties. And when you're playing a real person who's actually standing there watching you, you know, it's - you do feel a weight. You know, you feel an obligation to not only be - to give the best performance that you can, but to make sure that you represent this person.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Real, Character, Giving

  Source: movieweb.com

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• The thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human. They're full of flaws as much as they are full of heroics. I think the reason that people love them and hate them so much is because, in some way, they always see a mirror of themselves in them, and you can always understand them on some level. Sometimes it's a terrifyingly dark mirror that's held up. 

  Keira Knightley

  Hate, Character, Dark

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• Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of the writer and, second, in the mind of the reader.

  Maren Elwood

  Character, Two, Mind

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• To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.

  Caroline Lawrence

  Real, Character, Trying

  "Top writing tips: Caroline Lawrence" by Caroline Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

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• I don't think I ever relinquish a person I have known, and surely not my fictional characters. I see them, I hear them, with a clarity that I would call hallucinatory if hallucination didn't mean something else ... A character whom we create can never die, any more than a friend can die ... Through [my characters] I've lived many parallel lives.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Character, Mean, Thinking

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• It's certainly easy for me to make a fictional character mad about something. I can get them angry about something that I'm relatively indifferent about, just because I'm not educated on it, if I go to someone who is educated about it and is passionate about it. I find a point of fiction and then give it to them.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Character, Giving, Mad

  Source: collider.com

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• Perhaps teenagers don't interest me as much as children do since I still feel (even at 58) to be a fairly adolescent personality, especially in my enthusiasms, and I find myself an uninteresting fictional character.

  Scott Bradfield

  Children, Teenager, Character

  "Go Forth (Vol. 15)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. September 10, 2013.

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• When you play a real person, you feel a sense of responsibility that obviously you don't feel when you're playing a fictional character.

  Natalie Dormer

  Real, Character, Responsibility

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive, and very therapeutic. Time passes very fast when I'm writing-really fast. I'm puzzling over something, and time just flies by. It's an exhilarating feeling. How bad can it be? It's sitting alone with fictional characters. You're escaping from the world in your own way and that's fine. Why not?

  Woody Allen

  Character, Writing, Exhilarating Feeling

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