Character Quotes

It probably says something really clinically terrible about my character that I need to get up on a stage and go 'Ra ra ra' in front of people.

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character.

It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.

Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.

The power of movies lies in the fact that it enables the viewer to enter the reality, to some extent, of the characters.

My favorites movies are always character driven, it's the human equation that makes horror interesting to me, not the monsters. It's how people handle extreme circumstances.

If there's a great story and great characters, then I can love a film in any genre, though crime thrillers and sci-fi have a particular soft spot in my heart.

When I was 15 I lost a tooth and had an implant put in. Cut to 20 years later, I'm doing this part [Andy Bernard] and the script calls for my character to lose a tooth.

The biggest thing that comes out of improv that gets built on is just character traits. You know, for me the singing was born out of improv.

I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.

When I'm putting the character together I try to find music that I think fits the character.

I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

Holland is very good at avant garde, probably due to the Dutch character. Good at design. Experimentation sometimes works here very well.

For me what was very important was to try to capture the essence that might have existed behind the myth, the human essence of the character.

Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

I suspect that the theme, the nature of the characters, and the method of getting from the beginning of the play to the end is already established in the unconscious.

I’m infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life.

When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.

Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again.

Trust your actors. That's why I work with the same actors time and time again. I encourage them to change the dialogue to achieve one thing: keep the characters honest.

[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all the character of a great epic.

[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man.

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

Majorian presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the honor of the human species.

The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative.

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

The man that makes a character, makes foes.

Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.

Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?

Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor.

One man's priority is another man's extravagence.

Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.

Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.

I knew how to act and had studied acting and enjoyed it, but I'd never pushed myself to really perform as an actor, and create a role, and have the whole character's backstory.

I think characters are most terrifying when they're relatable. It's best when your most horrible characters make sense, and are believable. That's when a movie is most terrifying.

I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.

If you handed [character] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one really cared about water.

So, as much as it is about this continuing war, the reinstated draft, and their individual views, it's really sort of a deeply human tale, and a character study as well.

I'll play a character who is getting married to a woman to avoid the draft. Ultimately they fall in love with each other, but at first it's only out of practicality.

I don't like to play characters that are one note, and just the attractive girl in the film.

It's hard to be scared if you don't feel for a character, because you don't care if they die or live.

A lot of people loved to hate my character on 24. I want to be the character people love to love.