When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
Luigi Pirandello

You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff.
Harvey Korman

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

I've always had difficulties with female characters.
John Le Carre

If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
Marguerite Young

That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people.
James McAvoy

I'd like to play nothing but good characters.
Joan Leslie

I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
Beau Bridges

There are good characters and bad characters.
Matt Stone

Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better.
Anita Desai

It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it.
Robin Quivers

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
Anita Desai

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

I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand.
Kathleen Turner

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

We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.
Geena Davis

The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird.
Julie Walters

The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
Tim Roth

The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it.
Marguerite Moreau

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
Carl Barks