Character Dislike Quotes

Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.

I'd rather go back to waitressing than play a character that I hate.

I would assume most people hate my character. But I'm hoping that I'm the character you love to hate.

To an extent, our relationship with the movies is always subjective. Our capacity to be involved says as much about each of us; I've never fathomed why anyone would want to spend four hours in the company of the exceedingly tiresome Scarlett O'Hara.

I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character.

The most irritating movie character for me was that cradle-to-grave commie, Mary Poppins.

I love every character in the DC universe, except for Rampage. Rampage is a She-Hulk rip-off, and I like She-Hulk.

I was on 'That '70s Show' as the sexy nurse. I like that show, but I hated my character. I was like, 'I will never do anything like this again in my life. I feel crazy.'

If you want to write about a person who isn't nice, people say, "This is a bad book. It's about somebody I couldn't stand." But that's not the point. You don't have to like a character to like a book. Most of the time, people would misjudge and say, "I didn't like the book." No, you didn't like the character. That doesn't make it any less interesting of a book. In fact, to me, it makes it more interesting.

I replaced someone on 'Days of our Lives' once, and the fans hated me. She was a redhead, I was a brunette: they went nuts. Even at fan events, they were rude to me.

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.

Nobody just flops a complete 'Doc Martin' script on the desk. They all have to be taken apart and all the apologizing taken out. Because it's hard to have a protagonist that doesn't really like anyone and nobody really likes him; it's a hard premise to start from.

I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'

In genre movies, you usually not only hate the characters, you sometimes hate them so much that you hate the actors playing them.

I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters - which, again, I take as something of a compliment.