Character Quotes

The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state -- this is a rainbow state.

With any character, the main objective is to bring authenticity to the role.

I've always wanted to play a soldier and I'd never taken on a character where I'm the happy-go-lucky protagonist. I've played a lot of jerks recently.

Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did.

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

I'm hungry for a cold and mean character - I'd love it if someone thought I could play gritty. I want to play a baddie, someone really scary.

As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing.

No matter what the characters you play, you have to find the differences in them, especially when you are doing a political movie.

I take great responsibility in any character that I play.

I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.

For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play.

It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.

I dont theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that shes thinking.

I've always enjoyed shows like 'The X-Files,' where you're on the edge of your seat and you're so invested in these characters.

Part of what compels me to write day after day, chapter after chapter, is the discovery process, seeing the characters evolve as I get deeper and deeper into the story.

To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into the women's fiction category.

I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character.

There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.

Government-run schools can't instill morals and character.

Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.

Yeah, I am a character actor.

If you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately give the audience a handle.

I really want to try to explore the characters from angles you've never seen and keep them classic and iconic.

Thankfulness and gratitude are the foundation of character and being able to serve others.

Writing sketches, youre also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.

Disney World is celebrating its 40th birthday! You can tell the characters are getting old. In addition to Snow White's seven dwarfs, she now has 25 cats.

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

If you have the right costumes you feel more confident as the character, they really help you act.

Yes, I love playing cartoony characters. Been known for that.

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.

I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking.

You have to make sure you have the characters you want. That's really the most complicated part.

Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

I don't cry. Well, you know, I think coming from an acting background that's really helped me because I more than anyone know that an actor creates a character.

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.

I want the chance to play very different characters, and I've always wanted to do more films.

You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.

I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me.

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.

As time goes on, I will play characters who get older: I don't want to be some Botoxed weirdo.

As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.

I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters I was playing. I see the similarities in them reflecting on my life.

I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage.

What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.

I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.

I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.