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• When I am writing, I’m very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.

  Graham Swift

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• I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It’s very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.

  Vikas Swarup

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• Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.

  Sissy Spacek

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• All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it’s my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

  Wilbur Smith

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• Characters can become boring. That’s what’s tricky about television. It goes on and on – you’re playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.

  John Slattery

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• I’m interested in a lot. Like right now, I’m just really excited for ‘Catching Fire’ and ‘Mockingjay’ Part 1 and 2. But I love playing characters like Prim – I mean, Prim is like my dream character – but after ‘The Hunger Games’, it would be fun to look and see what else I could do well. But right now, Prim is like my dream role.

  Willow Shields

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• I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.

  William Shatner

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• Like, on the ‘Parks And Rec’ set, I still feel like I’m a guest star. Being a fan of the show, it’s really surreal to be on the set and see that it’s not real, and getting to know the actors and they’re not their characters.

  Adam Paul Scott

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• Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine – that sort of thing.

  Martin Scorsese

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• Well, I don’t think I’ve ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there’s a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.

  Liev Schreiber

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• I’ve always believed in populating my films with characters who we like, who we have some warmth for, who have warmth for each other, who we would like to hang out with, who we emulate in one way or another.

  Ivan Reitman

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• From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I’ve just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy characters.

  Randy Savage

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• Every sport has its own cast of characters.

  Randy Savage

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• A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

  Izabella Scorupco

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• There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that’s kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.

  Gus Green Van Sant Jr.

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• The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don’t notice they’re getting made fun of. So they’ll say something back that’s not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

  Adam Sandler

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• When you write for a show that’s not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

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• I think I’m drawn to more villain-type characters, because it’s so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.

  Gabrielle Union

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• Our characters were antiseptic but we weren’t. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very funny, we played them very straight.

  Burt Ward

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• Yet as a director, I don’t feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.

  David Fincher

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