Character Quotes

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.

I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

One of the things that really intrigued us the most about the whole Wonder Woman mythology is the actual mythology of it. Her character has distinct roots in classic Greek mythology.

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

My father's a character.

I want to be respected as a writer and, like I said, I was really sick of people saying I was a two dimensional character. I want more to my legacy, I guess.

We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!

By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.

The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

I'd like to do a play, but I can't find the right thing. I don't want it to be a starring role. I just want to play a really interesting character.

When you start playing a character every day for seven weeks, it suddenly starts becoming easier.

I've always played characters that were younger than myself.

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics.

The TV commercials, which are endless and fairly crass, gave birth to Brock, the bad-lawyer character in Razor Girl. In real life you can find even sleazier examples than him.

I think the scariest thing to me is to think that somebody would only associate me with one character and that that's all that I would get to play.

At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.

I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.

You have to be able to get inside the heads of the characters and completely sympathize and understand them.

As a feminist, I think you never want to have your characters defined by the relationships that they're in, and it did give her a chance to be a sophomore in college without a boyfriend.

I just love that feeling of being in another world, of creating characters and watching where they go.

I like that - the "you-ish" character.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

I definitely acknowledge that The Matrix and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it's awesome.

Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect.

I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.

No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. [All have] particular idiosyncrasies that make them fascinating and that's how I tend to approach a character.

If you get into the area of judging the character you're playing you're getting into a sticky area.

I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

Sometimes when you cannot decide what to do, you pretend to be a character in a book, because it is easier to decide what they would do"-Cassandra Clare

I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book.

I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters.

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.

I'm just happy there are characters in the world. I think that anybody who's completely nuts and makes the world a more interesting place is good by me, as long as they're not hurting others.

If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.

I really wanted our male characters to be a lot stronger. We gave them careers, lives.

I want to bring softness and refinement to an urban, feminine wardrobe and to help the woman show her character and individuality through her unique clothes.

It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with all my stories.

When I first got the audition for Shado, I went online and subscribed to DC Comics and read a bunch on Shado and the Yakuza, just to get to know her character better.

It's always been a dream for me to play a comic book character.

I want to try different genres. I think I'll still be looking at a strong female character in the center, and identity struggle and transformation.

I've always been drawn to dark, disturbing characters.

Character imperfection is the important thing to keep them from being superheroes.

Like most people, Im fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.

For me, it's always filmmaker and then character and then story. They're all equally important but if you don't have a great filmmaker, you will not have a great film unless you just get lucky.

When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters.

I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.