Character Quotes

The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.

Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.

The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.

I'm not going to say it's laziness, but I'm not a grand creator of new characters.

You can make a little thing feel like a big thing. To me, it's all tone. Tone is the most important thing in the world. Then character, then story, or something like that.

Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.

I love characters that are very layered and complex. It's more exciting and different than any simple role- plus, I love a good challenge.

I've sort of prided myself on playing characters with conscience. The first way I go about creating a character is looking at that area of conscience. What have they done, and what has it cost.

An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.

I have a strong and strange character, and I've rarely met directors who knew what to do with this character. One of the few who did was my father, and in the theatre, Arthur Nauzyciel.

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles

Character is the architect of the being.

Character demonstrates itself in trifles.

The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.

Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters start to appear and narrative threads begin.

Actually there were [ in MacGyver] a lot of things about the original that focused on the character, but not too many people seem to remember that.

Without doubt, in animation each frame is important, every movement defines the character.

It's never very useful to see your character as a villain. You have to play them the way they see themselves.

The lack of predictability with television is something that's constantly changing what your perception of who you think your character is.

I always played the ugly sister instead of Cinderella or the Wicked Witch. But those are the parts I love, and actually, to be a character actress, you have more longevity, hopefully.

To be honest, and I may regret saying this, the idea of playing the same character for a very long time is very daunting to me.

Good characters are rare. As long as I find one or two a year, I'm happy.

'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.

I am an "unrealized" character, dramatically speaking.

I decided to work on hand animate because the animators work as authors in every little scene and it brings real soul for characters.

I'm quite good at switching off and sometimes I forget who I am in a character.

I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future.

Old characters never die, but I do need to take a break from them in order to create new ones.

Acting is very much like a child making believe. I'm not one to become a character, but I fall in love with the character. It's like having faith; you're going to be that person for a while.

I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character.

The first thing I look for is the humor, because you can tell what the character's fears and insecurities are through the humor.

An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.

The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment.

I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.

There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating.

One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.

It only takes 140 characters to toss ones character out the window.

The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for revolution is elimination of life

What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.

The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed.

It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.

The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast.

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

I'd be happy to play anyone's girlfriend. I'm happy to be working, ever. It's not an intentional thing to play these messed up, crazy characters, but I'm happy to do it 'cause someone's got to.

Ive always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.