Character Quotes

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me.

Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me.

It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

It's hard to play a continuing character like Loomis for nearly 11 years and simply wash your hands of him. It seems a pity.

I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.

I don't think I'd call [mood] a major force, but it is important as far as hitting the right notes or nuances with a character or scene.

I really have no idea what the French think of my characters, or why The Devil All the Time did so well there.

I think my characters - well, at least a few of them - are hoping or searching for some kind of contact with god.

I'm asking the American people to rise above the noise and the clutter of our broken politics.

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction

You can't dictate if a character's going to come off as sympathetic to an audience. I just tried to play it as honest as possible.

We as actors doubt up until the last minute that we can be this person. So everything matters, the more work you do, you get in touch with who the character is.

Your resolve is unquestionable. Your character undeniable. Your history unparalleled. You've inspired us, all the way. You will again today.

I act according to the requirements of the character, and if I try to play the role, then I play it truthfully. In my daily life, I'm a laid-back, peaceful guy. I'm just doing my job to act.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.

[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie.

I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.

I enjoy Modern Family very much. Good TV program. I don't know why. I just find that so many of the jokes land. So many of the actors are so great. Phil Dunphy is one of my favorite characters ever.

My own personal process with movies is to develop the characters with the actors and, when I've done that properly, you can't imagine anyone else, but that actor, playing that part.

It's almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors.

For big Hollywood movies, I'm on the more character-driven side of the equation. So, TV is a natural place for me to be because you've got no choice, but to be character-driven.

I pride myself on doing character-driven movies and, when my movies have worked, it's been because of the right casting and the right character, and it just clicks.

I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

TV is a safe place to develop real characters.

TV has no choice, but to rely on character, and everybody knows that. I love working in it. It's such a big canvas where, if you're successful, you go on for years.

Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.

I love the challenge of playing characters forced on life-changing emotional journeys. To work on a project with Billy Crudup and Sam Rockwell is just a dream come true.

Each character you play has its own set of characteristics, for want of a better word.

But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character - I had no role in creating him.

Writing a new film about cereal killers. Not serial killers, cereal killers. The main character can eat two, three boxes at a time.

I never act my characters - I am them.

The most fun characters to work with are characters that are complicated.

I don't like nihilistic characters. As bad guys they're great, but as heroes they don't work.

I do feel there's certainly some films where you can feel that the directors don't care about the genre and they don't care about their characters.

If you have a great characters, you can always have your character do nothing or do something stupid, and people will still follow them, because they're so real and so tangible.

Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of a wink, a self-portrait and not much more.

You do look at a lot of movies and many characters seem to be interchangeable.

I'm such a fan of Deadwood. I love the characters in that. They're such wonderful characters. I'm a fan of The Wire. Those are all heavily character-based shows.

I don't really go back over my old shows, but I'll see them occasionally, mostly I want to go back and change things about the character as I look at them.

Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.

If I like it, if I think the character is going to be fun, if I think the story is good and if it appeals to me, then I want to do it.

We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.

As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.

Character is what you do in the dark.

I've been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It's one of those surprises in life that makes you think, 'God was smiling on me that particular day.

I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them.

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.