Fictional Character Quotes

#1. We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, they can't get anywhere near as complex as a real person.

Ruth Rendell

#2. Thanks to the fictional character named Fraser, in a well-loved Scottish novel, Alexander's existence on the grounds of Culloden had become its own bit of Hell.

L.L. Muir

#3. Gayness is built into Batman. I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There's just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he's intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay.

Grant Morrison

#4. I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script.

Luke Evans

#5. Every fictional character is real, they just inherit a different world.

Daniel Schwabauer

#6. The world tends toward chaos, you know, Cassidy said. You could too. Just write down a made up name, or even a fictional character. And the next person who finds this geocache, it's as though things really hapened that way. You have to at least allow for the possibility of it.

Robyn Schneider

#7. Blurryface is a fictional character and a reference to insecurities, which I think all people have.

Josh Dun

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

Jeanette Winterson

#9. In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.

Joaquin Phoenix

#10. You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.

George R R Martin

#11. I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.

Meryl Streep

#12. The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.

Neil Cross

#13. We are living in a post-fictional era. Fictional governments are accepted without comment, and we can sit in a mosque and have a debate about the fictional port a fictional character consumes in a video game, with every gravity we would accord something quite real.

G. Willow Wilson

#14. It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.

Christian McKay

#15. I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!

Carrie Fisher

#16. The day when you shed a tear for the death of a fictional character, you know they have become more than a character.

Ryan J. Alls

#17. To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.

Caroline Lawrence

#18. I have always believed there is great value in studying the flaws of mankind and men - even fictional characters. All of us are flawed. All of us are diminished by some form of prejudice and bias. If a fictional character is to be realistic, he must struggle with imperfections and weaknesses.

K. Lee Lerner

#19. Meaning, yes
I don't really exist except on the page or in the back of your brain. But if you think it's weird a fictional character's telling this story, you ain't seen what happened, yet.

Kyle Michel Sullivan

#20. I don't think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real!

Ruth Rendell

#21. Perhaps teenagers don't interest me as much as children do since I still feel (even at 58) to be a fairly adolescent personality, especially in my enthusiasms, and I find myself an uninteresting fictional character.

Scott Bradfield

#22. On some deep, unconscious level, he had always known it to be true. He was an invention, a fictional character. Jacob Lightfoot didn't exist.

Sharon Sant

#23. I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?

George R R Martin

#24. Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.

Shannon Hale

#25. She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free ...

Kate Morton

#26. I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.

David Benioff

#27. 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

#28. I've never dated a fictional character before. The closest I ever came was an Italian.

Woody Allen

#29. How does one go about getting an introduction to a fictional character?

Richard Bruce Nugent

#30. Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as well, I think. We have to make our landscapes, change streets, create new turnings, rebuild or tear down, change time, and even nature, if need be.

Mary Lee Settle

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

Ben Thompson

#32. Does talking to yourself in the voice of your fictional character count as being social?

Michelle M. Pillow

#33. When you play a real person, you feel a sense of responsibility that obviously you don't feel when you're playing a fictional character.

Natalie Dormer

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

Penelope Lively

#35. Indy Rivers got things done. Maybe she was a fictional character, but they were in a fictional place, in a fictional situation. There were worse things to be than fictional.

Mira Grant

#36. I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character.

Doug Liman

#37. True, I'd never met him. And true, he was a fictional character. But he also was what people needed him to be: a dashing hero, and articulate peacemaker, a cunning excape artist.

Jodi Picoult

#38. How sad that I felt more of a connection to a fictional character than to a guy in real life.

Allison Van Diepen

#39. There is no cure for fictional character love, but the plus side is that it is an entirely benign disease with no bad side effects.

Cassandra Clare

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

Lauryn Hill

#41. 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

#42. Angry people scared me. Angry people who thought I was in charge scared me even more.

Amanda Hamm

#43. I think the character of Superman may be the greatest fictional creation of modern times, and working on the book is for me a sacred trust. I'm just doing my best not to disappoint!

Chris Roberson

#44. What's a horse doing on a spaceship"
"What's pre-revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Mickey, get a little perspective!"
Dr. Who "The Girl In The Fireplace

Stephen Moffat

#45. The characters tell their story - I am merely the tool used to record it

Marti Melville

#46. Look seeker, if you love a character, you give them pain, ruin their lives, make them suffer. Maybe even throw in a heroic death!

Varric Tethras

#47. I'd rather feel empathy for a character that's fictional, so it doesn't quite tie into personal experience as much.

Henry Cavill

#48. She was returning home to be the wife of, mother of, First Lady of, but what did that really mean?

Stacy Hawkins Adams

#49. I have a rule: I will not alter the basic history of a real-life character to suit our fictional needs in a big way.

Terence Winter

#50. 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

#51. But people do the same thing with the Bible. They memorize all the fictional characters, the parameters and the rules of the game and think it's important, but I can't get excited about that myself.

Brad Warner

#52. I'm a blank canvas that I can paint however I desire. For the first time ever, I get to be the character in my own fantasy land.

E.K. Blair

#53. Pure, perfect sorrow is as impossible as pure and perfect joy.

Leo Tolstoy

#54. I mean, I can do that all day long. I can tell you the Vulcan's are not actually devoid of emotion. That they work hard to suppress their emotions. And of course, there actually are no real Vulcan's, though I know the ins and outs of them as fictional characters.

Brad Warner

#55. The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.

Louis Theroux

#56. That wasn't love; that was stupidity.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#57. I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters, a fictional world - to listen to that world, to search.

Frederick Buechner

#58. His suffering was no more real than he was.

Johnny Rich

#59. He's a real nowhere man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
Doesn't have a point of view,
Knows not where he's going to,
Isn't he a bit like you and me?

The Beatles

#60. Why do we insist on being the carpenters of our own crosses?

John Zunski

#61. Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of the writer and, second, in the mind of the reader.

Maren Elwood

#62. Exquisitely embroidered tapestries lined the walls of Medb's bedroom, but their impact was somewhat reduced by the room's ambience. A musky odor with pungent accents of stale piss.

David H. Millar

#63. Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#64. We all learn, whether consciously or not, that the default interpretation of behavior reflects a character's state of mind, and every fictional story that we read reinforces our tendency to make that kind of interpretation first.

Lisa Zunshine

#65. The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories

Diane Arbus

#66. Friendship is just love that has yet to sprout wings and take flight.

Kristen Reed

#67. The best boyfriends are the ones in books.

Leah Blundell

#68. What good would learning be if we concentrated on what we already knew? It is only by learning those things that come to us with difficulty that we truly gain wisdom.

Kate Klimo

#69. No matter how much restitution she paid with every word and deed, her blood-stained hands could never really be clean, even if no one else knew they were dirty.

Stacy Hawkins Adams

#70. 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

#71. When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.

Faran Tahir

#72. Living in that castle was like being condemned to Hell before I'd even had the opportunity to sin.

Kristen Reed

#73. So my character on 'Tyrant' is a chap called Barry Al Fayeed, and he is the second son of a fictional Middle Eastern dictator. But, he has grown up since he was young in America. He's trained as a doctor. He's married a beautiful American girl, had two kids, so he's very much an American.

Adam Rayner

#74. Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

Caroline Leavitt

#75. We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.

Kate Mulgrew

#76. How can one understand the inner life of a character, real or fictional, without knowing the state of her finances?

Ian McEwan

#77. I am Captain James Hook! I am no victim; I create them! I do not have bad dreams; I inspire them!

Heidi Schulz

#78. But I assure you, a government that is willing to put their own children in danger, their own future, just to see their potential, is twisted. We do not grab babies, newborns, and throw them out of windows just to see if they sprout wings.

S. Elizabeth Dover