Character Quotes

What's best for business is just continue to have an entertaining product with great, interesting characters.

Comedy is commitment and playing a character and falling into the role, and I've been doing that since I was 19 years old.

When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.

I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.

I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.

I play very sweet characters, so people look at me like I'm the kid from 'The Wonder Years,' rather than Brad Pitt.

Guys play characters that won't grow up and something catastrophic happens and they have to grow up to save the day - that's pretty much what today's comedy is about.

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.

I think you've got to have a depth, a deeper depth to take stand-up into acting, but I think it really helps you as a stand-up to home into different characters and stuff easily.

Honestly, I don't go out of my way to see animated movies. I'm mostly influenced by.. the films I tend to like are the small films, small personal stories. With characters you can believe.

Having been dumped so many times in my life, I thought I could sympathize with Bellas character.

I feel like any experience you can have which adds to your repertoire of things you've done and can add to your character - I'm willing to try.

I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters.

I much prefer following a lead character that is doing morally questionable things. How much do you get on board? Do like that? Do you hate it? Does it matter?

I don't think you have to like a character, but if you can understand why they do what they do, or the position they're in or why they make certain choices, then you can get behind them.

A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.

Character is very much a matter of health.

I know that shorter messages are better in terms of reply rate. The optimal length is something like 50 characters. Characters, not words.

Fills the heart with its unforgettable characters and small-town charm. A feel-good read as welcome as a favorite friend!

The red lips are - I don't want to call them "armor," but they're the clothes of my character, and I'm in the business of entertainment. Wearing red lipstick helps get me into that world.

I was the nerdy one. I always played those kind of characters until Mad Men.

I often played the nerdy friend or the goofy sidekick or the sort of naïve movie character in some ways.

I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.

I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.

Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.

Strange is the influence of Marx on character.

My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.

Sons of Anarchy has the perfect combination of character and action.

The idea right now - and it may evolve - would be a live-action movie where some of his characters would be animated. To me, this movie is very much about the creative process.

Characters are born from necessity.

The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.

I don't have to prove anything to anyone. As a result, I am ready to take up again the characters who are closer to what I really am.

My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.

To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.

As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.

A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.

In no other profession does the character and personality of a director play a more vital role in the development of young people than in the coaching of athletics.

I like situations that push a character to the edge.

I played a girl. There's really nothing controversial about her. She's just fine. She has to be fine in order to make Sarah Jessica's character pop, I say I just play a white girl in that movie.

Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters.

My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production.

There are ugly aspects to every single person's character. In being truthful, actors do have to show the ugly side of someone's character. We all behave like dicks sometimes.

As an actor, I function from a place of compassion and empathy - you have to believe 100 percent what your character is doing, because otherwise it will look like it's not real.

We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.

I don't think Aaron Sorkin can write a character who isn't really funny.

The technology actually seemed to come at just the right time to make the Hulk - Mark Ruffalo was really able to play both characters.

I think audiences definitely respond to people who are not living the perfect lives. The flawed characters, the people who are struggling. The antiheroes - people like to see that a lot more.

A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume.

The dimensions of video game characters, even when they're scanned from real people, are beefed up with exaggerated proportions in games like Def Jam: Fight for NY to give them more pop.

Everybody always feels that they're right even if they're wrong and that's what a whole actor's career is built around rationalizing your way into whatever character you're playing.