Character Quotes

I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.

Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character.

You can make low-budget film as long as there is something compelling about the characters. There is a believability in the chemistry and a likeability amongst the characters.

I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.

You kind of worry for the characters in a way that you don't normally in sci-fi, because sci-fi tends to be about the ideas, and this is about people.

Each role, I feel like takes you on a different journey based on who that character is.

When you're trying to do character work that's different from what people expect from you, you're sort of in territory that is uncharted, and you don't know how it's playing all the time.

I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play.

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

I can always see something of myself in the characters I play.

When you think about the person responsible for creating the character and the dialogue, Bill Monahan, who's a Boston guy, obviously, his words roll off my tongue quite nicely.

I always tend to like the characters that I play. I'm convinced that I am this person and I'm OK with whatever they do.

I don't intend to be insensitive to the victims and their families but, at the same time, as an actor, it's our job, and we are obligated to portray the characters in the most realistic way possible.

I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.

I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the same time keeping things fresh and grow the character.

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.

It's good fun to create an unpredictable character. When he comes into the room, I don't know what he's going to do - I have to find my way.

For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.

My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.

People who don't pay attention to the question of justification are often rather uninteresting, in my opinion. I am most fascinated by characters who struggle with the demands of justification.

We are poor in character when we think getting by is a substitute for doing our best.

The characters Im most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You dont see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.

I mean every character you totally, you know, the full fiber of the personality is kept in the film, and all of those little moments, all those funny little tidbits are all in there.

I realized that the people weren't just characters but they were people and they were getting to do something that was so fun and I wanted to be a part of it.

I want to be inspired by the characters that I play and excited by the projects that I do.

I love playing characters that are strong, when there's physicality involved.

You don't need a dead father to explain a character's sadness. And impressing yourself with wit/cleverness often feels like what it is - authorial intrusion.

The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable.

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

I wanted it to be a wonderful combination of being able to dance a little bit, not being especially good, but also playing a character who says the line, "I love to dance".

An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character.

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.

Let us respect the unique character and the personal world of each and every human being

At its core, 'Heroes' is an ensemble character drama with genre elements.

I need to be able to write a poem after every film and to kind of cleanse myself from the character because for about three months or so, I'm constantly living through the character's eyes.

In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.

Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.

A crisis unmasks everyone.

Authority is conferred by position, not character.

Holding unconventional opinions makes people feel they have strong characters.

I think when you have a band that are so separate and isolated then you have to know each others styles and characters quite well.

When you're an actor, you're very much exposed, but in a strange way you're totally protected behind a character, behind a script, behind a director.

Give your hero a strong simple reason that he or she has to solve the problem right now.

What is ultimately motivating the character?

For every role, I brought certain elements of the character. Even on White Collar over six years, I tried to keep the set fun and breezy and Howard Hawks-y and very of the tone of the show.