Character Quotes

I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I'll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.

In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and things would happen around him.

There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.

I find it really difficult to even articulate things that I've done in the past. I express myself through the characters that I play, not through the articulation of them later.

I want to bring something different to every film. I get a bit tired of actors who kind of are the same character in every film that they do.

If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail or would it go for a bargain-basement price?

The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.

Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.

I tended to lean toward character work. I love to disguise myself.

While I love working on dramatic characters and stories, it's comedy that I love the most. For me, it's incredibly rewarding to make a person laugh. Laughter is one of the greatest parts of life.

I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.

Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is, every sound I can make has been harvested.

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.

"Big Bang Theory" focuses on main characters who in other shows would only be auxiliary players hewing to stereotype: The gawky nerd who lives next door and says oddball things.

Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.

In the 1950s that tug-of-war between the expectations of behaving normally and the limitlessness of thinking freely produces some very strange characters.

There's no great movie where you haven't been emotionally connected to the main character.

Sometimes even when the book is over I dont know whos good and whos bad. Its really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.

The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.

I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.

God uses prayer to educate His people and to produce holiness of character in them.

My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

I don't mind playing older characters. I find it interesting. There are parts I couldn't have got when I was 30 years old. So, it continues to interest me in the same way that it always did.

I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.

What a testing of character adversity is.

The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.

There must be some point, at which the lawyer's own personal and social morality will rebel against his traditional allegiance to his client.

I think situations are more important than plot and character.

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.

You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

[C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character.

I love playing a character that has more than 90 minutes, and that keeps going.

Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.

I love to do movies. That's something that I find so much joy in, in being able to travel around and play new characters.

It's important to fight for your character but at the same time realize there's a bigger picture involved and, you know, this is a character that's shared by everybody. It's not just purely your own.

Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.

I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they're thinking about in their life and enjoying a show or a movie.

The voice is not only indicative of man's character, but it is the expression of his spirit. Other sounds can be louder than the voice, but no sound can be more living.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

As you're learning your lines and the character you're playing, you're going to make mistakes but I learned more about Shug Avery. I learned my lines, but everything had to be done quickly.

So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more fun.

The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It's the minute I'm putting a judgment on something.

When my husband first read a draft, he said, "You spend too much time describing the characters' outfits." He was right. I removed much of the clothes talk, but quite a bit remained.

Character isn't inherited.

the fool is the one true cosmopolite - the one character common to all nationalities.

It is steady, reliable, tough. It never yields to panic. It is never defeated one-sidedly. It achieves everything attainable by character and tenacity.