Interesting Characters Quotes - Page 2

• David's [Cunningham] a very interesting character. He has more integrity than is good for him. So, everything he did after that sort of undermined what he'd done. Other people who kind of took life more cheaply, would have really gone for it. David almost did everything he could to scupper the whole thing, which I very much admire, but of course it was deeply irritating then, because we wanted to make a bit of money! So we made this very catchy tune and then he added a bunch of weird stuff which was all very strange.

  David Toop

  Integrity, Character, Interesting

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Michael, from 'Six Dance Lessons...' He was somebody who had a lot of self-loathing; being a gay man who lost his family and felt ostracized. It was an interesting character to play. He was so bitter and jaded about life. Even though I'm not like that personally, everybody has a side of themselves that tends to look at the negative side of things. He was an interesting character to play.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Character, Gay, Men

  "Renaissance man". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

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• What's best for business is just continue to have an entertaining product with great, interesting characters.

  Chris Jericho

  Character, Interesting, Entertaining

  Source: www.wwe.com

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• I love playing different characters. I just do. I want to play even more quirky and interesting characters and just something that people wouldn't automatically think that I would be. I want to go against the grain a bit and I'm hoping people will be open-minded enough to cast me in stuff that's going against the grain.

  Dave Bautista

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: dailydead.com

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• I just want to play interesting characters, and I want to work with the best directors I can work with.

  Andre Holland

  Character, Play, Interesting

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Character, Interesting, Doe

  "She & Him: a musical marriage made in heaven" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2010.

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• The thing I respond to the most is just great writing, interesting characters. I like to think that there is something fun about playing a character that has a lot of authority in her own life.

  Marin Ireland

  Fun, Writing, Character

  "Checking In With Marin Ireland". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 16, 2012.

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• My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream.

  Vidya Balan

  Dream, Character, Race

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• The interesting thing about Hain is that he's not a very interesting character. He's not fabulously clever. He's not a great policeman. He's not hugely charismatic. I'd describe him as a kind-of Chekhovian character. He's an ordinary bloke, to whom extraordinary things have happened. Which is quite hard to play, I have to say.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Clever, Character, Play

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• I always think that the most interesting characters are those that are trying to cover something or those that have some sense of bravado or composure.

  Emily Blunt

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. January 19, 2010.

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• I'd like to work more, but I don't just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do interesting characters, and I'd like to be cast against type.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Character, Interesting, Want

  "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 17, 2013.

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• I really love doing indie projects, I think the characters that are available in indie games especially, like a lot of the indie games I've done, have been really rich interesting characters for someone of my vocal range.

  Ashly Burch

  Character, Thinking, Games

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• The most interesting characters are those you're drawn to, then repelled by, and then come to understand. All that tension - I live that. But I don't plan the tension. It's just something that should happen.

  Rachel Weisz

  Character, Interesting, Should

  Source: deadline.com

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• You can make an interesting character in a small portion of a movie, for a character that doesn't have that much on the page, if you just find the contradictions. That's something that I try to bring to my performances.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Character, Interesting, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• You know, the best-laid plans of mice and men... I like playing bad guys, and I don't have a problem doing that. They're interesting characters, and there's as many different kinds of bad guys as there are good guys - they're rich, they're strong, they're powerful, and so that's fine with me.

  Tobin Bell

  Strong, Powerful, Character

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• I love people like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, people who create and write their own stuff - especially when there's just not enough cool, interesting characters out there.

  Debby Ryan

  Writing, Character, People

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I like to work with actors that have varied experiences. But I don't choose them because of their experience, I choose them because of qualities I think would make an interesting character and to me there is no one way to direct actors, there is only one way to collaborate with one person.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'

  Mitch Albom

  Sports, Writing, Character

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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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