Character Quotes

I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.

When I listen to my scene partners and listen to their breathing allows me to be connected to them in scenes. I am not trying to multi task, not trying to talk on the phone, but in my character.

What helps me is yogic breathing, dropping my spiritual level where I am really, really clear that I am playing a character.

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

Anyone could identify with the human aspect of the characters.

Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.

In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories to tell.

I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative ways to help externalize what they're thinking.

Dan Harmon has this idea that characters on TV are allowed to talk about their favorite movies and TV shows and songs.

When I'm watching TV, I'm always drawn to those female characters who are doing something that I would want to do.

I think of clothes a lot like costumes. I think of what I wear in real life as being my real life character's costume.

It's a challenge to work a character's arc into a format in which you only have a very limited amount of time to grow and develop a character.

The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques.

When you have a clear idea of what your character is trying to accomplish, it makes it a lot easier to riff on things.

Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?

By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as dark a view of the American character as that of any critic in our history.

I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

Theres something magical about theater. You can live the character every single day to the point where you become that person.

When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character.

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back.

My character on 'The Good Wife' is a smaller character, and his story arcs are typically season-long, unless it's a big episode for him. His transitions take place over many, many hours.

When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.

If you put people in a corner, you see what their character really is.

A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a human being.

I pretty much always choose characters. That's what I do. That's what I look for. I look for dynamics in a script and potential.

Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect.

I think any writer coming on to Batman should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to them. Whatever they think that symbol or character can say.

The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies.

I would be Jesse Martin ..., but not to be his character, just so I could be Jesse Martin and sing like Jesse Martin for a day.

Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood.

You really have to be a character to serve it properly. Obviously, you're acting, but you have to have those things in yourself, whether it's the experience or the same qualities.

I have always been business minded, always been sorta an entrepreneurial guy; I played a character on Felicity that was modeled after me, actually.

The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.

I like complicated characters.

I feel this way about a lot of movies, that the characters are idealized versions of people. For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.

My favorite kinds of stories are the ones that have these big crazy genre hijinks and then a real honest, meaty, emotional story where we're watching a character grapple with some real things.

We learn more about the character of people on one off day, than on all their best days put together.

With Mass Effect we said, "Let's reflect the fact that you can be almost anyone, do almost anything, but..." In our minds, we always felt the character was iconic.

The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.

Sometime female characters, especially in the genre of something that people consider rom-com, make mistakes in a cute way or they're a mess in a way that's palatable. I like that.

It's fun to play a character when you can't concern yourself with how sympathetic they are.

When you're directing, I feel like I'm playing all the parts, without the make-up. I really get into the heads of the characters.

I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I'm making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.

I try to put myself into whatever character I play.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.