Character Quotes

If you get a show named after you, and then play another character, that's fine. But if you do a show that's an ensemble show like... MASH, then you're in trouble.

People can rock together, people can do great things together, and that's what you love when you're working with characters and it's all going well.

I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.

My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.

While the cast of characters stays the same, I always try to add in new information so readers get to know the people they care about better with each story.

Melissa [ Rosenberg] really has mastered coming from character. Everything radiates from the characters in this work. You don't feel like anything's imposed.

I like playing that character who brings love to people, who puts people in a place where they're apt to encounter love.

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

I'm proud of my wrinkles. They give my face character. As an actress, you mess with that at your peril.

My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life.

If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in harmony or in conflict with the background.

The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention.

I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now. I will be in it, if I'm the best man for the job, but it really is about creating characters and shows.

Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?

It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.

The measure of your character is not what you do when people are looking. It’s what you do when you think no one is looking.

I think thats what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.

I love the idea of playing a character that didn't over think everything. He knows what's in front of him and he has an ability to just say whatever he felt.

...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

As an actor, you can't judge. A great actress from Spain said, "We, the actors, are lawyers of the characters we play. We have to defend them, no matter what."

In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards.

I just always look for stuff that has a character-driven thing.

Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.

A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?'

A man without characteristics is a most insipid character.

The energy is important. It's the rebirth of the character. Even more than the sentence itself, it's the energy that has to come through. It's really 'Thank you!'

It was always about the story rather than the character.

She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.

Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.

I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

I had tears coming out of my eyes. And it was the characters that got me there.

When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty.

Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.

I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that...

You have that Frank Capra kind of side to it and the characters are really well drawn, so I think everybody tried their best to stay faithful to the script.

Most of Ayn Rand's major characters are already formed at the start of the stories.

In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem.