Character Quotes

I dont really like simple characters too much; its too easy. I like a challenge, and I like characters you connect with on screen.

The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.

Certain songs I feel different people should be on different tracks, you know it's emotional. I put myself into characters for certain records.

As the actor, you just have to believe in what your character is doing in order to play them.

I crave the diversity because I'm an actor and it's more fun to play different types of characters, but I'm pretty spontaneous as well, so I don't rule anything out.

I think that American audiences are more used to following one character.

I just don't ever want to play the girlfriend. You know, the supporting character in the background who just sort of comes in and goes, "Oh, shucks." It's just a boring character.

Sometimes your characters in films do things that you wouldn't do. You're not playing yourself all the time.

I've actually always been interested in following a character more long term, but the only place to really do that as an actor is on a TV series.

I enjoy being characters rather than myself.

I'm a character actor; that's my skill set.

I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.

I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.

I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director.

From the time I got the first couple of scripts [of Jessica Jones], I always felt that this was groundbreaking material and a groundbreaking character.

I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.

Youve got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what theyre like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.

The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.

The metaphor is the story, not the character.

If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it.

I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used to express the kind of metaphors that I find in each story.

I think the Hulk has always appealed very strongly to much younger readers than Spider-Man, because Spider-Man is an adolescent character, and the Hulk is a very childlike character.

I think there's a part of me that feels the need to hide a little bit behind a character.

As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be.

It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.

Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action.

Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.

It's fun to be the subservient character who is too dumb to know when to stop trying to win against the awesome superhero.

I love losing myself in the extremes of a range of characters.

One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent.

Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christ-like characteristics.

Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.

The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.

by the general love of scandal and detraction in Dublin, one might reasonably imagine they were all to feed themselves through the holes which they had made in the characters of others.

Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

To know a people's character, we must see it at its homes, and look chiefly to the humbler abodes where that portion of the people dwells which makes the broad basis of the national prosperity.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

In drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

Most of the characters I'd played were so different from me, so far from me that I had to transform.

Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with something to do, to achieve, to learn, and to change.

As I get older, the character evolves tremendously because I'm married and have kids now and realize certain things are not funny anymore. I threw them out of my act.

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

No one goes through life thinking that theyre the best friend of the lead character.

For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.

I never want to play a character that's one-dimensional.

I do just love the characters in sci-fi, but not necessarily the fact that it's sci-fi.

The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave no impression on me.

None of my characters have really had jobs.

I like writing dialogue - I can hear my characters so clearly that writing dialogue often feels as much like transcribing something as it does like creating it.