Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.
Jeanne Moreau

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.
Nicholas Sparks

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.
Nicholas Sparks

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
Nicholas Sparks

Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.
Nora Roberts

I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.
Christian Bale

We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be the person that he was and how he comes to be this man that jumps around in the Bat suit.
Christian Bale

I love the TV show, and if you make a bad movie it means you've soiled it. Just like if we made an advert. We were offered so many times and I'd say, look, this is the good thing, and you can't compromise that, because then you compromise the integrity of the characters.
Jennifer Saunders

We had this party in New York, and there were a lot of gay men there dressed up as the characters. I showed up just looking like myself, but it was a real case of shame. They looked so fantastic. We could never quite live up to it.
Jennifer Saunders

I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things.
Steve Wozniak

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.
Nora Roberts

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.
Jackie Collins

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
Jackie Collins

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.
Lynn Abbey

I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.
Randy Harrison

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!
Robert Burns

How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.
Salma Hayek

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
S. E. Hinton

The maxims of men reveal their characters.
Luc de Clapier

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.
Edwin Louis Cole