Character Quotes

I love people like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, people who create and write their own stuff - especially when there's just not enough cool, interesting characters out there.

Once a character has gelled it's an unmistakable sensation, like an engine starting up within one's body. From then onwards one is driven by this other person, seeing things through their eyes.

I fit into the quirky, character class type of actor.

I personally got to draw a take on a character that I've had in my mind since I was a teenager. That was pretty sweet!

Remember, passing judgment on someone else's character, is only a reflection of your own.

I want to play many different characters.

I believe in characters that can be tangible, and that you can actually relate to.

The second season is generally easier do because you know the actors better and they know the characters better and if everybody likes each other you can really go all types of places.

If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is.

Doing the same character over and over, it gets boring.

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.

I thought, I loved Batman, I loved Spider-Man, I love all these characters, but Catwoman is really different from any other one.

I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to.

Take care of your kid's character, and everything will follow after that. Character is everything

The left and Democrats are relying on the decline the American character that left-wing policies have produced.

I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.

You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.

When I'm acting, I just want to be the character and not have to think of any film technicalities.

As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.

The number one reason for the death of young actors' careers is people get so used to seeing them playing that one character that they can't accept them as anyone else.

My character has always been important to me. That was the one thing that I knew, no matter what, I had to hold that strong.

I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.

Spartan is about this elite unit of the armed forces named the Delta Force. I play a protege of Val Kilmer's character, and he kind of gives me a hard time.

1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.

It was easy for viewers to identify with our show. The characters were believable.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.'

I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.

Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

It's fun being one of the boys. It's fun to have a character that's rough and gets down and dirty and not to be this precious girl who just sits in the corner and just sort of stands by the action.

I used to watch dailies and felt I had to keep on top of the character, but I don't feel that any more.

I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character.

Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.

our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.

Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to listen to them a lot, and try to put their voices into their character.

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.

It takes nine months for a baby to develop, it takes nine months to develop a character.

As a hero, you have to play it straight. The audience is going to live through you, so you have to be more neutral. They will be projecting their thoughts and their actions onto the main character.

Because he's a character who's looking for his own identity, [He-Man is] an interesting role for an actor.

You really have to work hard to create a three-dimensional character. You have to rehearse and explore and take your time. You can't just memorize your lines and do it on the fly.

I think if you've held onto a character for several years and then you're getting rid of that character, it's going to be traumatic.

My job is to try and present the most fully-rounded character that I can, and bring a performance that people believe in.

The most fun part for an actor is the writing and the story and the character. That's very fulfilling.

Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.

We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.

I had the good fortune early on to cast some really great people that were not just characters, they had character.

I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.