Character Quotes

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

Any character you play, you're on his side. You do have the third eye that looks at what an appalling creature he is, but you have to look at what's good about him.

As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.

My last two characters have been Denethor and Walter Bishop. Both will be hard acts to follow. That sits in the hands of my managers, at present. I just have no idea what's going to be offered to me.

'Fringe' is essentially a love story, so the scenes where Walter had close connection with Peter, but also with Anna's character or Jasika's character, were very special to me.

I didn't drop into the mannerisms of another version of the character, but I guess I was pretty alert to that.

I'm a character actor, so as a character actor, I'm always looking for something interesting.

The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

When people come in the door and they have something, discovering and exploring the character is a real joy.

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

We are only advancing in life, whose hearts are getting softer, our blood warmer, our brains quicker, and our spirits entering into living peace.

I don't write [screenplay character] biographies beforehand. I usually go in knowing some sequences: this is where I want to start, this is where I want to end.

Viewers can hate a character and at the same time can't take their eyes off of him.

Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters.

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

Your reputation is what you're perceived to be, Your character is what you really are

Be more interested in character than reputation

You don't have to underestimate your audience anymore. They'd actually like to laugh a little bit. So, the character came to me and once it's got its grips in you, there's nowhere to go.

You always miss them [characters you've played] once you've walked away, but part of them always stays with you too.

I'm all for whatever it takes to get wherever you need to get with a character, as long as you don't wipe it on me.

In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.

It's never been a priority for me to concentrate on the likability of the character.

Ground the main character in stupidity. Hire a good cast and a good crew.

I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

I love comic books, comic book characters and superheroes.

For us, we just start with the character. We think of Stifler, and that usually just leads to something that's outrageous.

When you start and you're taking the character seriously, it's going to lead down a variety of paths.

There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on 'Friends' is.

It's grown into a personal relationship, yeah. I'm crazy about Jerry. I think he's a unique character.

I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."

I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at.

I'm very, very attracted to morally ambiguous characters, not just pure bad guys or pure good guys.

When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.

I always liked those characters in 'True Blood' who could turn into animals. I'd love to be an animal of some kind and run quickly through a forest.

An abundance of Twitter users believe they can troll and rant with impunity, no matter how debasing or even threatening their 140-character posts pose.

That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on and trying to make good to dwell on characters from previous books.

I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.

Often times, if a character is pretty straightforward, he or she is not as interesting to portray.

I would rather portray the hero, if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in "The Last of the Mohicans" and "Robin Hood."

As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.

When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd written for them already just because I claimed my character had.

You don’t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words chock full of received meaning.

I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of contemporary life.

It’s easier to be a character in a story than the star of your own tragedy.

For me, the attraction of TV is that you continue to get to tell those stories and refine those characters. The other thing is that TV, in the last years, got really, really, really good.

You have to defend your character. That's your job, if they're hiring you. That doesn't mean you can't collaborate, but you do have to make some big, bold choices. We do that in real life, too.

It's not enough to picture their outward appearance. Give them a background and sphere of influence.

The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.

Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just that it ceaselessly gives birth to living individuals.