Gorillaz Characters Quotes

Always be wary of people who use quotes. I don't know who said that.' - Murdoc Niccals ~ Gorillaz

It's the failure to see this planet as a single entity that causes so much pain so many times. You cannot attack one part of the world without it affecting the whole earth, the whole body. Attacking other cultures, other nations, is a self-destructive act. It always comes back on you in some way. ~ Gorillaz

We live in a shockingly beautiful world. We are walking through the living kingdom of heaven every day; the colours, the sound, the love of others, the potential to create, the plants, wildlife, nature, music, all sensations and life ... but if we refuse to see colour and beauty we may as well be in Hell. Maybe an animated band was the best way of announcing this. ~ Gorillaz

The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters. ~ Elizabeth Meriwether

I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays. ~ Eric McCormack

Plastic Beach will be the last Gorillaz album ever released. You've heard it from medirect. ~ Murdoc Niccals

She spun the car through a right turn that would have killed us all had we been minor characters. ~ Daniel Handler

I'm an actor. I have to play weird characters, quirky characters, strange characters, sometimes characters I don't understand. ~ Keke Palmer

The worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them. ~ Claudia Bakker

Writers don't kill characters. Characters kill characters. ~ MariaLisa DeMora

I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters. ~ Todd Haynes

To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense. ~ Michiel Huisman

I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters. ~ Gilbert Hernandez

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end? ~ Johnny Rich

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story. ~ Nicholas Sparks

I love flawed characters, male or female, and I only want to talk about flawed characters, really, in what I do. ~ Jenji Kohan

I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play. ~ Steve Buscemi

The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them. ~ Sally Field

men strike out their permanent characters; or have those characters struck into them ~ Patrick O'Brian

Well, we went through a lot of names. But seeing as, musically, I wanted to swing through the jungle baring my arse, I thought Gorillaz was a perfect name. ~ Murdoc Niccals

I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through. ~ Jack Kirby

When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well. ~ Sam Worthington

You put books out into the world, and people form their own visuals and images and attachments to characters; those characters become part of them, and they have their feelings about them. ~ Cassandra Clare

If they are good characters, they have minds of their owns. If they are great characters, they go stomping off into the sunset and leave you to pick up the trash. ~ Wendi Kelly

Maybe Jess was caught up with these ridiculous, impossible ideas because it meant she never had to try for something real. ~ C.B. Lee

Normally, when you're working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters. ~ Romola Garai

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters ... and that's why the characters need to be real. ~ Jordana Brewster

I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all. ~ Martin Freeman

All my characters are me, in one way or another. ~ Nick Harkaway

Characters are just extensions of my madness. ~ Mark Tilbury

I try to distinguish my characters from each other. ~ Lucy Liu

In a way, the characters often do take over. ~ Margaret Mahy

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life. ~ Penelope Wilton

When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and dejected, I started to feel a sort of melancholia which was very unnatural for me to have at a teenage. Then I avoided those characters. ~ Kangana Ranaut

I love comic books, comic book characters and superheroes. ~ Jon Huertas

Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects. ~ Noel Fisher

I want to play many different characters. ~ Demi Moore

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters. ~ Aaron Sorkin

As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy. ~ Randall Park

Fuck you! I pierced my nipples for her! ~ Stjepan Sejic

The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope. ~ Sara Zarr

The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance. ~ Javier Bardem

I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people. ~ Rachel Weisz

I was on tour with Little Dragon with the Gorillaz. She's got an amazing voice and is a lovely girl. Her vibe is fresh pressed and harmless fun with a tinge of the dark side if you look in the right bits of the tunes. ~ Neneh Cherry

I like characters who are contradictory. ~ David Bergen

For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves. ~ Terry Pratchett

I like the early comic book characters more than the new ones. ~ Nicolas Winding Refn

I think there should be more black characters, and more of all kinds of characters, in fiction. Almost all of the main characters in my novel Anansi Boys are black. And there are black characters in featured roles in all the other novels except Stardust and Coraline. (Something I was happy to see was not the case in Henry Selick's film.) ~ Neil Gaiman

Making a movie is about following characters and embarking on an adventure with them, seeing their reactions, and seeing what they do, having empathy for those characters, feeling for those characters, embarking on this adventure. ~ Franck Khalfoun

I don't think male characters are as one-dimensional as female characters. ~ Geena Davis

I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play. ~ Ryan Gosling

I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult. ~ Daniel Clowes

Now I am an old hag, I get to play much more interesting characters. ~ Joan Greenwood

To me, my characters are more real than most people I meet. ~ Wilbur Smith

I don't agree with the idea that my characters are unlikeable. ~ Noah Baumbach

I spend many hours in conversation with wonderful characters from fantastic books. ~ Patti Roberts

Some characters touch your heart, then tear it apart. ~ Dasha Levitsky

For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters. ~ Meg Cabot

Characters begin as voices, then gain presence by being viewed in others' eyes. Characters define one another in dramatic contexts. It is often very exciting, when characters meet - out of their encounters, unanticipated stories can spring. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book. ~ Tatiana Maslany

I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters. ~ Elizabeth Meriwether

I don't like to play characters that are too perfect. ~ Amanda Seyfried

I just want to challenge myself and play some different characters. ~ Bridgit Mendler

I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me. ~ Aaron Paul

I can always see something of myself in the characters I play. ~ Donnie Wahlberg

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals. ~ Don Roff

On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters - words have to be used to express that, and I love that about theater. ~ Alan Alda

I look for characters that speak to something in me. ~ Dorian Missick

I'm about my characters. ~ Abel Ferrara

I've always loved the underdog characters. ~ Jim O'Heir

Every sport has its own cast of characters. ~ Randy Savage

All of my main characters have been under 30. ~ Tamra Davis

There aren't many odysseys in cinema for characters. ~ Rhys Ifans

I have a thing for working with wounded characters. ~ Jane Jensen

I was always inventing characters and making up stories. ~ Suzanne Vega

There's nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters. ~ Adam McKay

I'd like to play nothing but good characters. ~ Joan Leslie

There are bits of me in all my characters. ~ Chris Lilley

I'm interested in characters that are complex people. ~ Jehane Noujaim

My experience is at The Groundlings Theater, where we created different characters and did sketch comedy. And sometimes the characters were outrageous, but they always came from a real place. So even working there, we had to create characters from the people that we knew. ~ Cheryl Hines

As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances. ~ James Badge Dale

The only time she's come close to being "known" was when she accidentally came out as bisexual during sophomore English class while talking about her favorite poem. ~ C.B. Lee

Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see. ~ Bebe Neuwirth

I think having funny characters is just one way of having three-dimensional characters. ~ Ti West

Office of itself does much to equalize politicians. It by no means brings all characters to a level; but it does bring high characters down and low characters up towards a common standard. ~ Thomas B. Macaulay

There are good characters and bad characters. ~ Matt Stone

And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends. ~ Fish

One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters. ~ C.S. Lewis

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. ~ Ray Bradbury

I can't stand characters with contradictory information. ~ Patty Jenkins

Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast. ~ Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand. ~ Kathleen Turner

I'm not always interested in Hollywood norms and boy-next-door kind of characters. ~ Kelly Masterson

I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters. ~ David Lean

I don't even like to show midriff - it's my characters who are always showing midriff. ~ Jennifer Sky

The hands of Yves Saint Laurent are something really important - two real characters on their own. ~ Pierre Niney

I write to keep the characters in my head from driving me crazy. ~ Alexandra A. Cheshire

Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting. ~ Julian Barnes

Every actress hopes to play a wide range of characters because not often you don't. ~ Megalyn Echikunwoke

Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author. ~ Anna-Cosette