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  • I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters. -- Adepero Oduye
  • The hands of Yves Saint Laurent are something really important - two real characters on their own. -- Pierre Niney
  • My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot. -- John Searles
  • Intimacy between humans need not be relegated to independent film. Real characters can exist no matter what the scale of a movie is. -- Colin Trevorrow
  • You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters. -- John Hartford
  • I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means. -- Toby Jones
  • M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect. -- Loretta Swit
  • TV has gone back to basics, relating to middle class family with real characters, less make-up and simple shots. I feel as an actor it is a delight to work in such shows. -- Mona Singh
  • Well, I think I've made 44 films and only like four times I've played real characters I'm just drawn to people who have a pioneer spirit, this extraordinary energy and commitment to their cause. -- Liam Neeson
  • I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character. -- Doug Liman
  • I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface. -- David O. Russell
  • In particular, I'm drawn to the stories that have big, high concepts and real characters at their heart. And I love where those two worlds meet, and 'Edge of Tomorrow' is the perfect canvas to explore that. -- Doug Liman
  • I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show. -- Abbi Jacobson
  • You have to always try to think about them like real people first, and not just heroes. They have to be real characters. As people do more and more superhero stuff, the characters are what distinguish it, just like in cop shows. -- Greg Berlanti
  • There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say 'I'm a character actor' then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit. -- Juliette Lewis
  • Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree. -- Ellen Muth
  • I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all. -- Lou Reed
  • TV is a safe place to develop real characters. -- Doug Liman
  • I always talk about my characters like they're real people. -- Dakota Fanning
  • I tend to play more true-to-life characters in real situations. -- Mekhi Phifer
  • I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters. -- Emily Giffin
  • The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques. -- Glen Cook
  • What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real. -- Spike Lee
  • My indie work is mostly reality-based, focused on real life and characters. -- Jeff Lemire
  • I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices. -- Minka Kelly
  • The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it. -- Vanna Bonta
  • I have a real eclectic taste for work, for movies, for characters and jobs. -- Ricky Schroder
  • If you care about [the characters] as if they were real, that always helps. -- Tina Fey
  • Listen to the way people talk. If your characters sound real the rest is easy. -- David Eddings
  • I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. -- Emily Giffin
  • It's very important to keep the emotions grounded, to keep the characters in some real place. -- Marc Webb
  • Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people. -- Cornelia Funke
  • The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty. -- Dylan Moran
  • I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life. -- Penelope Wilton
  • I don't think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real! -- Ruth Rendell
  • The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty -- Dylan Moran
  • I never base characters on real people - you can get into so much trouble that way! -- Michael Scott
  • If we show fictional characters doing cool stuff, then girls will want to be it in real life. -- Geena Davis
  • It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters. -- Mark Hoppus
  • I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist. -- Morgan Spurlock
  • Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation. -- George R. R. Martin
  • I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre. -- Jackie Collins
  • I feel that the characters in my book, if they were real, would be like, "Seriously, another plot twist? -- Meghan Blistinsky
  • You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. -- Victoria Abril
  • I like doing sequels. Basically, I think it's a fun thing to follow characters in time. In real time. -- Julie Delpy
  • I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all. -- Katee Sackhoff
  • The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself. -- Norman Mailer
  • I wanted to create a game (EarthBound) with real characters; characters whom players would recognize in the people around them. -- Shigesato Itoi
  • In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives. -- Kathryn Lasky
  • My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head. -- S. E. Hinton
  • I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters. -- Jacki Weaver
  • Good fantasy fiction: ... explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters' individual experiences to speak personally to us all. -- Laura Resnick
  • Beautifully drawn, solid, compelling characters against a background so real and scary I left the lights on all night. It was great! -- P. N. Elrod
  • The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Life is better than any movie or TV show. In real life there is no plot and there are billions of characters. -- Marc Pamittan
  • I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it. -- Peter Carey
  • When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters. -- Kevin Kline
  • One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face. -- Tamora Pierce
  • The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal. -- Wes Anderson
  • After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction -- Alice Hoffman
  • I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am. -- Paul Auster
  • Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes. -- Brent Weeks
  • I decided to work on hand animate because the animators work as authors in every little scene and it brings real soul for characters. -- Luiz Bolognesi
  • I think I've been good at getting into lonely and troubled characters because, not to brag, but I'm the complete opposite in real life. -- Kodi Smit-McPhee
  • I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial. -- Aubrey Plaza
  • Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature's way, give their own characters The name of Fortune. -- Menander
  • A German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the grave. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
  • 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
  • Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate learning experience. -- Karen Traviss
  • You read about somebody, and doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters. -- John Hartford
  • What I wanted to do [in Allied] was get two characters who fall in love for real, across the barricade, and then it transcends the war. -- Steven Knight
  • All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be. -- Allan Massie
  • People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters I play on TV. -- Kapil Sharma
  • The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope. -- Sara Zarr
  • MASH offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect. -- Loretta Swit
  • I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have. -- Ken Follett
  • We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand. -- Miguel Syjuco
  • I really respond to human scripts, scripts that are raw and real and risky. I love playing scary characters - not horror film scary, but vulnerable scary. -- Shailene Woodley
  • You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got to be real. -- Ricky Gervais
  • In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow. -- Jessica Cutler
  • So, yes, the five years that we've been working on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has evidenced a real deepening of all the characters, not only mine. -- Rene Auberjonois
  • Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.' -- Katherine Paterson
  • My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own. -- Charles de Lint
  • I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes. -- Shane Black
  • Gritty and witty, The Chicago Way is done the classic Raymond Chandler Way. Harvey's taut plot, snappy prose, and memorable characters make this debut novel a real winner. -- Kathy Reichs
  • Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters. -- Derek Jacobi
  • At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them. -- Ally Carter
  • All of the trickster, rascal characters that I write have the voice I aspire to. In real life, you can't be that obnoxious and get away with it. -- Christopher Moore
  • I love weird man, when you get to do something that you don't necessarily get to do in real life, play characters that are a little bit outlandish. -- David Koechner
  • I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people. -- Rachel Weisz
  • Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through -- Edward James Olmos
  • One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that. -- Peter Carey
  • In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It's a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life. -- Jack White
  • I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters. -- Jan de Bont
  • Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through. -- Edward James Olmos
  • The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This is true in real life. -- Sufjan Stevens
  • In 'Property,' none of the characters are based on any real people, but the house is very much the house that I moved into in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. -- Elizabeth McCracken
  • I love playing real characters... if they're not around anymore it's helpful because you won't get sued! But there's so much research involved and I love that part of the process. -- Andy Serkis
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