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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Benjamin Disraeli

The maxims of men reveal their characters.

Luc De Clapier De Vauvanargues

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I always find stuff in my characters to relate to.

Gerard Butler

Am I seeing the characters of the original diary or the characters from the film?

Helen Fielding

We're all hyper, so that's why the characters are so lively.

Sarah Reed

I have to find where characters live in my body.

Angela Reed

There are characters in it that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

Richard Hell

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.

Harvey Keitel

I wanted to say that (the characters) are alive, but that they're being governed by winter.

Rafi Pitts

What I tried to do was to use Jo's words to find the characters.

Joseph Graves

How many stunts can you pile on before the characters get really stale and boring?

Daniel Davis

The characters are built up of layers and layers. We're just adding our own layer.

Alex Kahn

We love these characters and we love them even when they're unlikable, ... We always see the pain and suffering behind the unlikable behavior.

Alan Ball

I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.

David Lean

The laughs are earned by the really well fleshed out characters.

Bebe Neuwirth

Make no mistake about it ? I wanted the characters to know what we're doing.

Michael Shea

You really start to see some of the life choices the characters are starting to make.

Scarlett Knight

Believe it or not, the characters are all like people I went to art school with in the '70s.

Daniel Clowes

We love characters in proportion as they are impulsive and spontaneous.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We had a lot of characters and maybe they were too much for him in the end.

Pau Gasol

But a blank he cannot be: there are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.

Thomas Chalmers

I have distinct tastes on these characters and I will fight for them.

Greg Rucka

There's going to be this juxtaposition of the comic strip characters you're never going to see again.

Dean Young

He came to a point where he thought he had no more to give to the characters.

Lee Salem

All sorts of characters get involved in this.

Bill Mclucas

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

Alphonse Karr

For anyone who's read the books, it will be really fun to see the characters come alive. We believe we've captured the essence of those characters and the essence of those books.

George Nelson

Now I am an old hag, I get to play much more interesting characters.

Joan Greenwood

Robin Hood has some of the most iconic characters of fiction.

Jane Tranter

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

Christopher Lambert

I always hide under the characters. Maybe I went to that place, but I wasn't that character.

Karen Brown

All the major Cherokee characters are there.

James Bradley

These are two very atypical characters for a television show.

Debby Beece

This is not Bambi. You can't think of these things as cute cartoon characters. They are animals.

Ralph White

Because there are a lot of characters that aren't followed through.

Nick Nolte

They were amazing characters to play. It was really the aristocracy of writers. Most of the writers I've worked with since then came out of that school.

Ted Danson

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

Ruth Rendell

Early on, (Rowling) created characters you can relate to.

Dave Lambert

There's a sincere interest in the characters we're making jerseys for.

Jared Press

Men's maxims reveal their characters.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Most of my female characters tend to be very strong characters.

Stan Sakai

I love that about `Farscape,' ... The characters don't go away when things start to blow up.

Ben Browder

It's a ridiculous thing to say, but truthfully I don't really like guns. But, I end up playing characters that use a lot of guns.

Oded Fehr

My characters always like themselves.

Amy Sedaris

I don't want to just play gay characters, ... I think it would get boring to play the same thing again and again and again.

Rupert Everett

The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history.

Norman Corwin

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

Some of the characters in the story had a fortune in fantasy lives.

R. Z. Sheppard

These characters are the product of a virtuoso act of the imagination.

Neil Gordon

All the characters are good and bad. None of them are soft and fluffy.

Andrea Roth

We're going to kill some characters off in the new series.

Matt Lucas

Next year we'll recruit character. This year, we're going to recruit characters.

Dick Tomey

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

Sidney Sheldon

They got a good deal because their characters are so valuable.

Robert Routh