Fictional Character Quotes

• Todays youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their sore and yellow as this splendid mans creations have in mine!

  Peter Cushing

  Character, Impact, Yellow

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• If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

  Richard Bach

  Real, Character, Practice

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

  Penelope Lively

  Character, Occupation

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• The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

  John M. Ford

  Writing, Character, Use

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• I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Character, Confusion, Literature

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• I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are

  Suzanne Collins

  Anime, Pokemon, Birth

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• Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

  George R. R. Martin

  Hurt, Ice, Identity

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.60, Bantam

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• You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Character, Intense

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• A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work through character, so helping the reader to feel close to fictional characters is the gate through which we have to usher the reader.

  Caryl Phillips

  Reading, Writing, Character

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• It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

  Katherine Paterson

  Writing, Character, Prejudice

  Interview with Anna Umanskaya, www.nytimes.com. September 9, 2006.

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• As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences.

  Christopher Lee

  Character, Trying, World

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• Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.

  Isabel Allende

  Lonely, Character, People

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• The important thing to remember is to follow the path of light. As the fictional character Yoda, from Star Wars, correctly pointed out, once you start down the dark path to power, it's very difficult to leave that path.

  Frederick Lenz

  Stars, War, Character

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• I was feeling like I'd been born in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people. I don't believe that anymore, not coincidentally two years after writing Eileen. I think that was the driving curiosity for me, thinking about real and fictional characters who could respond to that problem.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Real, Believe, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

  Mika

  Song, Character, Attention

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of 'One Life to Live.' I love the show, I'm a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled.

  Kassie DePaiva

  Character, Journey, Years

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• It's impressive when you're such a mysterious fictional character that even avid enthusiasts are debating your existence within the mythos.

  Ben Thompson

  Character, Avid, Mysterious

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• Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.

  John Banville

  Writing, Character, Exercise

  FaceBook post by John Banville from Nov 16, 2012

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• History is basically really looking back and finding out what happened to an individual, a community, a family, a group in a certain event. And so that's why I go, "Wow. That's what acting really is. You find out the background, you get the joy of creating a fictional history of a fictional character and you get to tell a story." So I felt that acting is making history come alive and it became my mode of trying to figure out what this craft of acting is really all about.

  Tamlyn Tomita

  Character, Community, Joy

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

  Lauryn Hill

  Character, People, Too Much

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• When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.

  Ed Helms

  Real, Character, Confusing

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• I basically enjoy doing films that are about something, that have complex roles that I can sink my teeth into. Basically, I gravitate to things that scare me. They might be things that I don't think I know how to play. I like trying to find within me where this character may exist. Whether is it is a fictional character or not I am not motivated by that. It is more about how challenging it is. It is just so happens that the more high profile things I have done have been historical characters.

  David Oyelowo

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• That applies, by the way, even to some of the folks who are now [Donald] Trump supporters. They're responding to a fictional character named Barack Obama who they see on Fox News or who they hear about through Rush Limbaugh.

  Barack Obama

  Character, News, Way

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I'd extend an invitation to Lisbeth Salander. She would definitely shake the party up and get it started. I think she is hands down one of the most original, innovative, kickass female fictional characters ever.

  Megan Chance

  Party, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• My next guest [ for party with five favorite fictional characters] would be Scarlett from Gone With The Wind. I mean, come on, I have to know if she ever got Rhett back.

  Megan Chance

  Party, Character, Mean

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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