Character Quotes

I think that my fascination with clothes generally was motivated by trying to create the characters for the stage.

I thought that I could do some kind of vehicle involving rock musicals and presenting rock and characters and storyline in a completely different fashion.

Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.

The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.

The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves.

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

Hillary Clinton continues to say Donald Trump's unacceptable, he doesn't have the character to be president. He is saying - continues saying she needs to be in prison.

It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at what he does.

Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes.

As an actor you use your imagination to put yourself in the shoes of bad guy characters. You create a story as to why you are doing it. You are finding what drives people to do this.

Maybe with "Californication" the character was partly based on Rick Moody. I read him and Jay McInerney, the templates for this bad boy novelist.

I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

Listen to the way people talk. If your characters sound real the rest is easy.

Russell Crowe is normally an actor who disappears so far into his characters you'd swear his DNA has been altered.

I've been lucky and have played some interesting characters - I'd quite like to play Sweeny Todd.

Multiple characters make it more difficult to showcase each character.

I want to be careful to not stray too far away from what Batman is to me, but adding that element takes you in some directions that haven't been explored quite as much with the character.

I naturally gravitate to darker characters. Gotham. Batman's suit. It's all dark; he's very interesting. It all comes from his builds and guts.

I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much more expository and didactic and more about subjects or ideas.

I look to challenge myself with a character that's not like myself or anything I've done before, but I certainly don't reject roles based on how often I've done them.

I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.

Throughout our lives, we develop our character consciously or unconsciously. In your journey to a life beyond amazing, you'll learn to develop your character in ways that bring remarkable rewards.

I love weird man, when you get to do something that you don't necessarily get to do in real life, play characters that are a little bit outlandish.

Every character and person in life needs a voice and every once in a while I get to inhabit the voice of the misunderstood.

[Lauren Ambrose's] character [in Can't Hardly Wait] feels real and unexaggerated and becomes sort of a heroine archetype. I think that was cool. It wasn't in every one of those comedies.

The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

I can honestly say Ive never thought for a second about whether a character reflects poorly on any group. All that matters to me is that the character is true to my belief in who he or she is.

Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.

IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA.

My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.

I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed.

An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.

But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.

The endings for all my characters seem sufficiently human and messy for me to feel comfortable with them. In some ways they have only moved an inch, but sometimes an inch is a great distance.

It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.

The best leaders are apt to be found among those executives who have a strong component of unorthodoxy in their character. Instead of resisting innovation, they symbolize it.

I was never unhappy with the shows. I didn't get into [the writing]. I had an area. My area was my character. My area was what they gave me to do.

There's a difference between the way I see it and the character's interpretation of the events, so the rules within the film are the rules within the film.

Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations.

As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.

I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.

I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.

Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

Well you just have to own it, I suppose. Own the character, which is difficult.

For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.

for me the most fun of my career is to bring a little bit of irreverence to characters. And, you know, I don't think that the producers were expecting me to be as irreverent as I am.