Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

I don't try to intellectualize characters too much. But I always think of the audience. I always make sure that my characters are likeable.

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.

I'm just attracted to people for who they are on the inside.

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

I fall in love with human beings based on who they are, not based on what they do or what sex they are.

You don't need to like any of the characters, as long as you can understand why and where they're from. Why do you need to like any of the characters in the movie? That's not how life is. You don't like everyone that you meet.

I think if you love someone, you think that they're out of your league, of course. I go for the full package though, you know, like not everything is based on looks. I go for talent and funny.

You don't have to treat people differently. You may be living a different lifestyle, but the person living that different lifestyle still can relate to anybody and have the same amazing personality of the guy from North Philly.

Even if the character is something that seems ridiculous on paper, there's a human element to everything. Otherwise, we don't connect with it.

Very often the characters people respond to best have little parts of reality they can relate to.

Anyone could identify with the human aspect of the characters.

There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your pain.

The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.

I think human beings probably resonate with audiences more than bunnies, but who knows?

If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.

Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.

I have always been more interested in persons than in people.

There are many things that I find attractive about a woman. Foremost to me, of course, would be a sense of humor-but that doesn't come in a bottle.

I always want the audience to identify with my character in some way. I mean, sometimes you'll get characters that aren't very identifiable. Sometimes you can't relate to your character at all.

My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines.

I think everybody wants to connect. There is nothing worse than feeling disconnected. And stories that really move people and make people care are the ones where they feel some sort of connection.

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.

Whether it's her [ Hillary Clinton] guarded privacy or whatever else, I mean, there has got to be some sense that this is a human being that I can identify.

Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed.