Character Quotes

If you're a good actor, then you channel enough of yourself into the character so that you do get that other thing.

With Superman, there are certain limitations for an actor. You can't go past certain boundaries because then you cease to be what the character is.

I liked "Superman/Batman: The Search for Kryptonite" because I really enjoyed the interaction between those two characters.

I wouldn't say Bond is an ideal figure, no. The character has been performed in so many different ways that people go, "Oh, that's an interesting take on Bond."

There's no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.

Your richest veins don't lie nearest the surface.

The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.

Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.

What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?

It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.

Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.

Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?

Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare.

What is either a picture or a novel that is not character?

If you watch a stretch of TV for a few hours, there is a good chance you'll hear me on some commercial or in some documentary or on a cartoon as some voice of a character.

It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character.

As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character at all times and under all circumstances.

Little lies are very dangerous, because there are so many of them, and because each one of them scours upon the character as diamond-pointed.

The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.

I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.

Character is our destiny.

A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench.

The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other's superscriptions.

Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.

Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.

Lizzie Pepper is pure fiction! The character is pulled from tabloids. But I think we all look at celebrity marriages and invest in them.

The idea of playing a character for even two years, to me feels claustrophobic - only because I want to play a lot of different people.

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.

At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work.

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

It's important to know the kind of character that you need to be building up to, throughout the series.

Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.

Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.

It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.

Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.

There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.

The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.

I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able to tell characters what to say and do without negotiating with an actor.

I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors.

If I weren’t getting paid or didn’t have a character like Wolverine to maintain, I would just be a tall, lean, fit guy.

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.

New York is a character, all on its own, and whenever you film there, it becomes part of the show. That's just the nature of being there.

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!

You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.

Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert.