Character Quotes

I consider myself a character actress, and that's working out. I'm getting chances to do things. I like the process - I don't want to pretend I'm something other than what I am.

Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

Mainly, I try not to think about my readers as I write - I just think of my characters and myself - If they're interesting to me, my hope is that they'll be interesting to others as well.

I do love editorials - youre free to do whatever you want and portray a different character.

Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.

The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.

Im always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

If I find the right character, I don't care if it's a film, a television show or a play, I'm gonna do it. Everybody crosses over and it's just one big pool of stuff now.

People say to me, well "What's the character you really want to play?" And I go, I don't know.

Everybody has their different tastes with television - there are some characters people like, some characters people hate.

I always feel a bit vulnerable when I begin a new project, especially when I am playing a character with either a troubled past or unique personality.

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

Our thoughts and our conduct are our own.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [A New Hope's] blend of adventure, likable characters, and epic storytelling.

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl.

Put your characters where they are the most interesting.

In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types of jokes, reacted the same, etc. I think they were all just me in disguise.

We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

Forney in Where the Heart Is has more fans than any other character Ive played.

We all age. You shouldn't discount it as a subject for a film. Just because the characters are dealing with issues that you might not deal with for another 45 years doesn't mean you won't like it.

Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.

You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.

Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?

It's definitely not the character who it is in the comics, I'll say that much.

I am never disappointed in Jobe Watson ... (who) is a man of the highest integrity, highest character and a great person for our footy club ... I have no concern for Jobe.

Leadership is character in action.

Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.

But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.

Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.

The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a lot of other things out there with just a different trademark character is a bore.

To me, the more bizarre the character, the more I'm attracted to it.

I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there's so little about him.

I did 'Narnia' because it was a good opportunity and all that, but really? I wanted to play Mr. Tumnus because he's my favourite children's character. That was awesome.

That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people.

You really try to work the character out and spend time in the headspace of the character. That's what I did.

It was like meeting someone out of your dreams, or fantasies, or a beloved character from a favorite book.

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel heat of man.

Dialogue's a method of revelation, of course. A few words of dialogue can reveal worlds about a character.

It's always fun to try something new, and to play a new character, and it's fun to play another period.

Children develop character by what they see, by what they hear, and by what they are repeatedly led to do.

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

In a great play or a great film, there's a rehearsal period and they find this character. On TV, everything moves fast.

I'm not that much of a researcher. I'm good at channeling characters, and I'm good at structure.

If I could play any character from the book though it’d be Church. Who wouldn’t want to be a cat?!