Character Quotes

I was lucky enough to be in some movies where I had powerful characters or I got to be the president on TV for a little while. Very short administration.

If we show fictional characters doing cool stuff, then girls will want to be it in real life.

My point was the world is missing female characters. A lot of times there is one female character, maybe even a cool one, maybe even an important one. But where are all the rest?

The creators of kids' media had no idea they were leaving out that many female characters. They were in utter shock that the worlds they were creating were so bereft of female presences.

I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.

I don't think male characters are as one-dimensional as female characters.

I think when you write an enigmatic character into a film, you have to have real confidence that the audience are going to go with it.

Jax Cassidy is a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction. Full of heat, seduction, and romance, her winning characters are sure to capture your heart and find a place on your keeper shelf.

As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.

One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there's this temptation to make Asian characters white.

I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I don't know that I would want to spend the rest of my life controlling my characters.

I want to do character driven epic storylines with Throne of Atlantis kicking off.

I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.

I've never been able to reuse characters, I've often wanted to. I've never been able to get people to cooperate. I can't get anyone together on any kind of deal.

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

An absolutely different and distinctive character.

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it.

Woody [Allen] is a fascinating character to be around. You don't really know what he's going to want. You're on your toes, but you're on your heels too, if you know what I mean.

There's so many characters they [studios] are not letting me play. And I thought, "Why don't you just go produce it yourself?".

No-one knows what I do in my private, spare time, so I don't see why anyone would assume I'm celibate or somehow turning into a Garboesque character.

Character is the salesperson

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire. In the extremity of war, character is revealed.

Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.

Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go on without him.

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.

I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it.

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

The presidency is a serious job that requires sound judgment and good ideas, and there's no doubt in my mind that Jeb Bush has the experience and the character to be a great president.

Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.

Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

[T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.

You can always find ways to make it different, as long as it's a really well-written script and well-written character.

men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.

I never really like the characters I play. I only come to love them afterwards.

The way I write is that, every time I reintroduced a character, I'd have to face some kind of inner demon.

I don't know if I could [do a TV show]. I would if it had nothing to do with the comic. It would be really weird and maybe not feature any of The Umbrella Academy characters.

genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

When you have great acting partners, you hope that your reaction to them is propels you deeper into your own character.

If I can look at each character that I am given and create them in a different way from the last role, I'm happy.