Character Quotes

I don't look in the mirror and think that I have flaws. I actually look in the mirror and see me. I see a lot of different characters and a lot of different things.

As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.

Meetings that do not come off keep a character of their own. They stay as they were projected.

I definitely try my best not to stay in character when I'm not on set, which can be more difficult in some roles than others.

I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.

I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.

I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.

I'm a pleaser. That's my character.

I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something to the story.

Poignant, earthy, intensely human, Letters From A Stranger is a love story that is as unusual and courageous as its characters.

Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.

In a show that has so many neurotic, broken beta characters, it's always fun to bring in a character who's really confident in themselves.

The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.

I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.

Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once quipped, "She's as wistful as an iron factory."

No fate could rob us of our own-- No circumstance can make it less; What time removes was but a loan, For what was ours we still possess.

I always try to do something very different with each character because that's why I like to do this, because I can become someone else completely and it's fun.

For 15 years, I've been playing the same character - which is myself - and I'm bored with 'myself'.

... it is always the men we won't allow to make love to us, who take our characters away.

You need clear, energetic minds, in order to appreciate the exalted character of the truth, to value the atonement, and to place the right estimate upon eternal things.

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write the story you need to tell and the rewards will come.

I don't care if people like my character. I just want them to think about the movie's message.

I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to happen.

I have a lot of people in my life who are truly ridiculous characters, and they're very, very funny people, but they don't really try to be. They're not cracking jokes.

I think the simpler it is when you have a crazy character to play is almost more creepy and interesting.

I love character roles. I'm happier in them. I look for roles that have some kind of complexity.

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

I try to be true to the characters that I've created and sometimes I disagree with them, but their opinions about the story and the characters really matter to me.

When I write, I picture the characters a certain way in my head, and they're not like any actor or actress. It's almost hard for me to let go of my ideas as to the way they look.

In my stories, I think, as I've gotten older, the characters have become stronger and more independent, and more capable of making unconventional decisions.

Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!

An alcoholic 47-year-old woman with teenagers who thinks a guy in his mid-20s is a good prospect as a partner definitely has some judgment and character flaws.

It turns up the heat under a narrative when you limit the characters in their movements or their freedoms.

I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.

I enjoy films where two characters are coming of age, just different ages. That's why I love 'Paper Moon' so much.

I love the idea of getting to play different characters and tell some stories. When you're passionate about a project, it's nice to get the part.

My dream is to be a character in a Wes Anderson movie. I just love how interesting and eclectic and stylized his characters are, and I would love to dive into that world.

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.

For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in my life who made strong impressions on me. I remember them and they are part of me.

It is very grand and sumptuous and awesome to look at but it was really about the characters for me.

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

I'm not a very good actor, so I break character all the time.

The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.

I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.

The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.

If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.