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• I think it’s fair to say I’m attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

  Mandy Patinkin

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• Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up – and I always tell them, ‘I hope they’re real but I made them up.’

  Katherine Paterson

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• I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ and Ricky Gervais’s character in ‘The Office.’ They think one thing about themselves, but the truth is as far from that as it can be. So I began to think about how to put that kind of character in a book for kids.

  Stephan Pastis

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• I don’t really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I’m playing. I’m more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they’re doing in a certain scene.

  Mary-Louise Parker

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• One of the benefits to television is that you’re with these characters for years, you know them so well.

  Aleksa Palladino

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• One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don’t like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don’t know why they’re doing it and it doesn’t make any sense.

  Glenn Howerton

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• I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.

  Tom Hooper

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• When I’m watching TV, I’m always drawn to those female characters who are doing something that I would want to do.

  Gina Holden

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• There are characters in movies who I call ‘film characters.’ They don’t exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

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• I’ve worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I’ve played characters that are unhinged. That’s, like, my job.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

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• I’ve learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it’s important to knock them down a peg.

  Jonah Hill

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• A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

  Taraji P. Henson

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• I don’t ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That’s why I prefer features over television.

  Taraji P. Henson

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• I like movies about people and movies with characters; that’s what I’m drawn to as a person who likes to create these characters within the story, but I like it all, really.

  Josh Hartnett

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• I sublimate different parts of my personality through my characters. Which is worrying, as some of them can be a bit nasty. I’m pleased the stuff on the page isn’t inside me any more.

  Joanne Harris

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• Character roles only indicate that they’re very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it’s fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am.

  Mark Hamill

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• I’ve had the opportunity to do a wide range of stuff, a lot of different characters and they’ve all had their own kind of thing.

  Tony Hale

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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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