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

- Alphonse Karr

It's almost better that Twitter limits me to 140 characters. There's only so much trouble I can get in.

- Anna Kendrick

I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way.

- Anna Kendrick

In so much SF, either gender roles are the ones we're used to in the here and now, only transported to the future, or else they're supposedly different, but characters still are slotting into various stereotypes.

- Ann Leckie

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.

- Ang Lee

Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.

- Ang Lee

The characters in 'Be Near Me' come from a genuine place, a Britain that is more than one country and more than one ideal.

- Andrew O'Hagan

As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.

- Amy Waldman

My characters always like themselves.

- Amy Sedaris

I'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own.

- Amy Adams

I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.

- Aaron Sorkin

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

- Alan Furst

I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

- Alan Ball

I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.

- Aaron Paul

A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!

- Ashton Kutcher

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

- Andy Serkis

I don't like to play characters that are too perfect.

- Amanda Seyfried

I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.

- Al Pacino

There's nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters.

- Adam McKay

There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.

- Adam McKay