Character Quotes

Many of the most important and life-changing moments of my life occurred when I was a young man. The lessons I learned then formed my character and shaped my destiny.

We should strive to develop within ourselves the traits of character of the Savior.

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger.

The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.

Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different.

I just love to act. It's my favorite thing to do in the world, and what keeps it interesting, to me, is the creative challenge. So, different kinds of characters, that's what I just love to do.

But I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is.

So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.

You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.

Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the person who's playing the character in your film.

For me, casting is critical. It's nice that social media and the passionate fans really corroborated choices and embraced kids to be characters.

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.

To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.

I think some industries are so far behind the rest of humanity, in the way they see characters and cast shows. Once those walls get broken down, it changes everything.

I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.

I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.

I get bored with the same old film coming out every weekend. It feels like it's the same story all the time, and the same visuals, and the characters' dilemmas are remarkably similar.

Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.

I'm a huge Kentucky fan. So when there was a chance to do the John Wall dance, I went into character.

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything.

When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.

The Hunger Games' for me is I love the books so much and the character and the story were incredible. That's kind of the game plan is just do really interesting stories with interesting characters.

There are a lot of characters that you can get into that don't exist in the studio world.

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool.

I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.

I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole

As an actor, I have to watch people and observe their behaviors - this is how I create characters.

I love the phrase, 'Somebody's going to have a good day today, so it might as well be me.' I feel like you bring everything to the character, I hope.

We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.

I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.

Often my characters have some kind of idealism or grand belief that they're pursuing.

A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.

Having your own character in a video game is pretty cool.

Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it.

I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs; otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in terms of the characters whom the voices express.

To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them.

To choose the ideal voice for a character is to give a character an ardent and vivid life, to allow him or her to speak, rather than speaking for them, in an older style of omniscient narration.

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself.

I love finding the vulnerability in characters. There's truth there. There's beauty in vulnerability.

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!

If I was playing Carrie, I might have done differently but I felt like as my character. I mean, I'm definitely bringing myself to the role but I wanted to pay homage. I hope I did. We'll see.

For me, the dialogue is the easiest part of writing. It just always seems so obvious what a character will say. Maybe its because I talk too much!

Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.

My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.

I'm looking for richness, complexity, and characters that have different layers and that you don't really get bored of.

There's so much energy that's needed, for every stage of the process, so I don't want to do something that I'm bored by with characters that I don't like or actors that aren't going to surprise you.

I like the opportunity to play characters who have these dark sides but make the audience empathize with them. You want them to think there is some kind of sweeter, softer side to it.

I've always been interesting in characters that challenge people and who are not always that easy to like.