Great Characters Quotes

The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.

I have to say, I feel really lucky. I've had a lot of great characters to play.

[Edward Snowden and his team] they're great characters. They're fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.

It's curious that apart from the baroque ranting, 'Sarah & Duck' is very similar to 'The Thick Of It' - great characters, excellent writing and lots of humor!

I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to.

The first time I re-discovered the joy of watching an action movie was when I saw 'Die Hard.' It was a completely simple plot - a guy goes to meet his wife, and the building gets taken over by terrorists - but I was completely blown away. Great characters, and it moved along really fast.

I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.

I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.

Everyone loves the seventies because that's when movies were character-based, and you saw great characters and you saw very interesting filmmaking. There are interesting movies being made now, but it's harder and harder to make them.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.

We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service of another is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.

All great characters, great icons, in literature are a bit of a riddle, and that's the reason we go back to them over and over.

I look for really great characters. I say great because as long as they're really good, there's something you can do. And really good storytelling. And when people ask me what the story is, I say it's really several stories really. They're intermeshed.

There's something rare and wonderful that's very particular to television, and it's when a great cast meets a great show runner/creator with the right set of characters to play. That's what happened with 'Arrested Development.' It happens every so often, but all too rarely on TV.

We think we've got great stories and characters that will lend themselves to great standalone experiences, and that's the way we're focusing on it.

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere.

I just felt like, you know, I read a lot of scripts out in L.A., out here in the industry and I just felt like this film was just being genuine. I just felt like it had really great characters. And all the three different characters have completely different stories and they're all kind of intertwined together thematically. So I just thought it had great characters, great themes

The script for 'Drive Angry' is a great read with great characters and great action.

The best games came from great characters.

I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make everything - to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.

What's best for business is just continue to have an entertaining product with great, interesting characters.

There are great characters on television.