Character Representation Quotes

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.

I want Priyanka Chopra to do my biopic. I think she is very good and lovely. Priyanka would be the ideal actress to play my part.

When representation of the LBGT community was much more scarce in the media, I think there was some kind of pressure to encapsulate an entire community in a single character - this can often be a fast track to generalization and stereotypes.

When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of this is true, how much invented.

I play real men that I can identify with. I have a lot of guys tell me that they relate to me because I represent the real, everyday dudes.

Actors always have to fight for the good parts. There are so few good roles written for women each year, and when one is written like this every actress in town covets the role.

One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.

Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

I have a lot of great fans. A lot of fans have cosplayed as Sweet Tooth, which I thought was really cool.

'Outlander' is progressive in the way it looks at women.

I was asked to be on 'The Colbert Report' last year as Big Bird and Oscar. But when we got there, we discovered they wanted both characters on at the same time. Stephen Colbert didn't know one man plays them both. We called Joey Mazzarino, our head writer, who's a very good puppeteer as well. He agreed to zip over and do Oscar.

I never regard my characters, my protagonists, as personifications. It's not that I sit by my desk and I pick up a character who will be the spokesperson of the Israeli Left, another one will be the spokesperson of the Right, another one will be the spokesperson of Middle Eastern Jews, European Jews, religions Jews and so on.

Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of vivid, passionate feelings.

Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.

I can only show what I have received from the characters. That's what's scary because you're never going to be everyone's taste and you don't want to let people down. But, I can only do what I can do.

I've played several real characters, and I've always found it very difficult because you don't want to do an impersonation.

I understand the whole constant foreigner stereotype, but for me it's important to portray immigrant characters like Jian-Yang and Danny Meng with humanity.

Seeing someone dressed up as your character is incredible.

As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.

I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.' 'And our own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla.

If anyone else played Hermione, it would actually kill me.

I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and then there was all that middle part, which was the middle.

I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.