Miley Cyrus Quotes

You couple that with how I looked when I was younger, and growing up... The voice is not quite breaking. It's awful. No, I don't enjoy that at all. But that's one of the things people love and find so endearing about the Harry Potter series, and why they've lasted so long. Because people have grown up with us, and they care about the characters. They're not just some characters in the film, they're people you can relate to, and you care about, and you grew up with, and when they die in this film, people feel it!

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless. If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.

There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.

In 'The Prophet' I really fell in love with those characters, there was an emotional connection there that I don't think I've had in a while. It made me think it would be nice to stick with the characters for a little bit and see what happens.

Certain characters get to me and stay with me for a while.

I had a love affair with books, with characters and their words. Books kept me company. When the voices of the book faded, as with the last long chord of a record, the back cover crinkling closed, I could swear I heard a door click shut.

If you cared enough about your characters, what happened to them was interesting... it's important to care about them, about who they are and what they do...I don't really care whose side they are on, and they can be monstrous on the outside or, worse, on the inside, but you still have to want to spend time with them.

When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these characters.

Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world or a character. They do become our best friends. I've probably spent more time with them over the past 22, 24 years than I have spent with most of the real members of my family.

If you don't invest in the characters, you don't care if they get killed. It's more fun if you know them.

Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.

My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.

I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.

I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.

You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.

It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.

It's hard to be scared if you don't feel for a character, because you don't care if they die or live.

Well, it's difficult to fall in love with a character when you just read the pilot. You don't really know who the character is.

I don't really like simple characters too much; it's too easy. I like a challenge, and I like characters you connect with on screen.

Once I fall in love, finishing a story leaves a hole in my heart. The characters become your friends.

A lot of entertainment, and especially in a half-hour format, can be all jokes, all the time. And some of those jokes can be really, really funny, but what I respond to, as a viewers, is identification or caring about the characters.

I think people are getting into these 'Empire' songs because of the emotional investment they have in the characters. You kind of feel like you know the songs already because you just watched them play out in front of you with these characters.

If the reader doesn't care or relate to the characters, all that visual spectacle is pretty but feels empty.

Point of view gets me. If I can feel like a character rather than a reader, I'll read that book.

If you care about [the characters] as if they were real, that always helps.