Character Quotes

Generally, the bigger the budget, the less interesting the characters become.

I usually play characters that are a lot different than me. I mean, I'm never in a fight in a movie and if I'm in them, I'm usually losing.

I like to do comedy, but I'll be perfectly honest, I prefer to do drama and more character-driven-based stuff, generally.

I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.

I like conflict, drama's conflict and if you don't have that in the character it's really not a worthwhile role to play for me.

The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.

I don't like when people relying on me in any kind of business way. I'm just a writer. I'm just noodling around and trying to come up with great characters and fun ideas.

I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.

You have to get rid of characters to make room for new ones, but you also have to recognize when things are done.

I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension between rule-breaking and rule-following.

Donald Trump has many ads about Hillary Clinton's character and it's fair to look at both.

As an actor I can sort of smell a duff note, that isn't full of that much conviction. My worst thing with directors is when I know more than them about the character.

In any show with a character that you really love, one inclination is to cure them of all their flaws but you remember that you like those flaws.

When you have only 10 episodes to do and you know there's so many fun things that you have left unresolved, you have to figure out what happens to all of your supporting characters.

The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.

I played a lot of character parts in school.

Character driven stories engage me and when an audience gets to know a character in an unforced way and finds themselves rooting for him or her, those are the kind of movies that get me excited.

Not knowing what's happening, from script to script, as an actor and as a character, lends itself to the same tension and anxiety of not knowing what's happening.

When you do a film, you start to get the character, and then it disappears for a year before it's released and you get feedback.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

Approaching a comedy character is fun because you get to sit down with the director and ask, "What makes you laugh?" Then you end up bouncing ideas off each other.

Rupert Grint is exactly like his character Ron, in that they are both incredibly funny, friendly, and loyal.

I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama on cable has characters that are really intricate and deep and have multiple layers.

Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go.

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

I do find it sometimes that people project their own feelings on to the characters and I think that there is a certain amount of sexism - I mean the proprietary nature, for men and women.

All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.

Being an author means, almost by definition, that you make up characters and then complicate their lives. That's it, really. You make up characters and give them problem after problem after problem.

When the people you've already worked with are very talented and you know what they can do, if you think of a character that happens to be perfect for them, then you make it happen.

What we do in public determines our reputation; what we do in private determines our character.

Only people of proven character should be placed in positions of spiritual leadership.

I think that if youve got 5 million people that enjoy drama and invest in characters, you must take the time to not worry about your job and getting sacked and just go for it and hit it again.

Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has such a smaller attention span than maybe they used to have.

You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.

Examine the platforms of both parties. Examine the character of both parties. Get down on your knees. Say, Lord, help me make this decision. And then go vote.

I'm always playing these mendacious characters who end up hoisting themselves by their own petard.

My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.'

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either.

For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters.

Every actress hopes to play a wide range of characters because not often you dont.

I tend to play characters that arent supposed to black or written black.

My next guest [ for party with five favorite fictional characters] would be Scarlett from Gone With The Wind. I mean, come on, I have to know if she ever got Rhett back.

I think The Nightingale is my best, most mature, most moving novel, but maybe that's just because I love these characters. I love the setting.

To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times; the real surprise is that I finished the book at all.

Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines.

I am not just sitting and reading everything because honestly sometimes the scripts that appeal to me are projects that are not good projects, but I just really like the script or the characters.

Nobody's ever kept their sitcom character going after the show's off the air.

If the Devil is an evil computer, who the hell programmed it? Who is the Dr. Frankestein of this abominable character?