Interesting Characters Quotes

• The script is really always the main attraction, and then there's whether there is an interesting character and great people around you. Those are the key elements that I look for.

  Rupert Grint

  Character, Keys, People

  "Rupert Grint on What Sold Him on ‘Snatch’ and Embracing His ‘Harry Potter’ Fame". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 16, 2017.

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• I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

  Helen Mirren

  Strong, Character, Interesting

  "Helen Mirren, ‘Hitchcock’ Star, On Meeting Alfred Hitchcock: ‘I Was Arrogant & Ignorant’". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?

  Tony Goldwyn

  Character, Interesting, Want

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• The Hunger Games' for me is I love the books so much and the character and the story were incredible. That's kind of the game plan is just do really interesting stories with interesting characters.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Book, Character, Games

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• A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to write from the gut. I'm not saying you have to live your life like a fantasy adventure. The trick is the ability to synthesize your own everyday experiences into your fiction. Infuse your characters with believable emotions and motivations. Infuse your world with rich sensory detail. For that you have to be in touch with your own existence and your own soul, the dark and the light of it.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Motivation, Writing, Adventure

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• For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Passion, Character, Interesting

  "Sculpting in Time". Book by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986.

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• I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.

  Walter Koenig

  Character, Play, Interesting

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• I think it was Alfred Hitchcock who said 90 percent of successful moviemaking is in the casting. The same is true in life. Who you are exposed to, who you choose to surround yourself with, is a unique variable in all of our experiences and it is hugely important in making us who we are. Seek out interesting characters, tough adversaries and strong mentors and your life can be rich, textured, highly entertaining and successful, like a Best Picture winner. Surround yourself with dullards, people of vanilla safety and unextraordinary ease, and you may find your life going straight to DVD.

  Rob Lowe

  Strong, Character, Successful

  Rob Lowe (2014). “Love Life”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• It was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.

  Sean Bean

  Character, Journey, Interesting

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• My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

  Harold Ramis

  Character, Interesting, Stories

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• These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.

  Lewis Tappan

  Character, Interesting, Attention

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• Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.

  Ann Beattie

  Character, Men, Interesting

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• Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult.

  Anna Paquin

  Character, Thinking, Years

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• There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

  Derek Jacobi

  Character, Games, Careers

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• I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

  Alan Rickman

  Writing, Character, Journey

  "Alan Rickman: Truly, deeply appealing". articles.latimes.com. November 20, 2011.

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• Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

  Charles Dickens

  Exercise, Men, Sight

  Charles Dickens (2005). “A Tale of Two Cities - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.87, Prestwick House Inc

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• External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.

  Charles Dickens

  Rain, Fall, Wind

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.3

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• Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.

  Charles Dickens

  Enemy, Fellows

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4639, Delphi Classics

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• But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Soul, Tears

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.142

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• You know, Qhuinn's an interesting character." Saxton reached out with an elegant hand and picked up his port. "He's one of my favorite cousins, actually. His nonconformity is admirable and he's survived things that would crush a lesser male. Don't know that being in love with him would be easy, however." Blay didn't go near that one. "So do you come here often?" Saxton laughed, his pale eyes glinting, "Not for discussion, huh.

  J.R. Ward

  Crush, Cousin, Eye

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.263, Penguin

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• Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

  Isabel Allende

  Motivation, Nice, Inspiration

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• I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

  Charles Dickens

  Freedom, Butterfly, Deny

  Bleak House ch. 6 (1853)

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• He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

  Charles Dickens

  Commitment, Ifs

  Charles Dickens (1866). “Works of Charles Dickens”, p.205

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• The thing I'm writing now, I have various characters, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, this couple dies. And they have a daughter. ...I thought, 'OK, we have to do something with the daughter' ... then I realized she's not really their daughter. She has her own story. And she's become the most interesting character. She was this throwaway character that I didn't even conceive of before I started writing her into it, and now she's become very important in this book.

  Sandra Dallas

  Daughter, Couple, Book

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• I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if you're playing the good guy, you get three colors: red, white and blue. But if you're the bad guy, you get the whole palette.

  Ronny Cox

  Character, Thinking, Blue

  "Senator On the Rise". The GateWorld Interview, www.gateworld.net. September 15, 2003.

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