Character Quotes

While I'm acting I'm focused on what I'm trying to say through the character. And when I'm writing, I'm just putting down on paper or on the computer what I have to say.

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

I feel like a character actress - it's where I'm comfortable.

I want to go and have a real experience and it's just lovely to sit and watch a movie and just be really transported by a story and care about the characters. That's always what I'm looking for.

According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice.

Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.

As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!

The climate informs the character.

I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.

Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble.

I do think comedy needs to be a living thing, but I think without a great script and fully realized characters, you cannot keep it living. Otherwise it just becomes long and rambling indulgent.

In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place. You feel like the soul of this character is now dwelling in you.

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

Sometimes I like to think that characters you play are all the other people you could've been in a lifetime.

Designing the prints was very much like writing a story with characters, [inspired by] some of my my favorite icons of the time: Eva Perón and Josephine Baker.

The wardrobe is always the last piece of the puzzle. When you step into the clothing, that's the final step to figuring out that character.

I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character.

I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.

Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.

I don't make fun of my characters. I just like to laugh and I think people are funny and the world is funny.

Certain people do need to stay in character the whole time, and that's just what they require as a person.

Johnny Storm is such an iconic character. There's a lot of personality traits and things to him that people are really going to look forward to seeing.

I definitely want to do films. To see a character out from beginning to end in a matter of a hundred somewhat pages and then move on to the next role, is fascinating.

The public wants elected officials who have character. The public wants elected officials who are willing to stand up and say things, even if they don't agree with them.

As an actor I'm always interested in dialogue, the way the characters speak to each other. I also enjoy a bit of humor, especially when it's unexpected.

I've always played very human sort of characters.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

This is a tried and true genre directed by a guy who's famous for character work. This could take a genre picture and lift it and elevate it. That was my thinking.

I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.

The characters I write about are very internal.

Ingeniously plotted and executed, Print the Legend is an epic masterpiece from Craig McDonald. Beginning to end, I was riveted by this story of character, history and intrigue.

The character can never be static from book to book. People might think you just come up with a new plot and stick this guy in. Well, he has to be as new as the plot every time.

I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.

I'd love to star in a television series of my own. I love the idea of living with a character for a number of years, watching him grow.

A long time ago, I learned not to go up to the boss and ask what's happening to my character. I haven't done that for 20 years, since I was on 'Days of Our Lives.

It’s harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.

It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.

I used to need the character but as I've gotten older I need it less and less - I prefer to play some version of myself. To approach any acting job as me just being me.

The characters that I have on Twitter have very little resemblance to me, the person who's writing them.

It's such a deliberate thing to sit down and write a tweet. You're putting yourself out there in a very deliberate way, and over however many tweets, you start to create a character for yourself.

The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.

It's not really a preparation when you know the character that you're playing. It's not too difficult. It would be more difficult the first time, I guess.

If we don't invest now in building character into children we will surely invest more tomorrow in trying to repair adults.

Hire for character, train for skills.

We all have three characters: the one we really have, the one we try to convince the world we have, and the one we think we have.

Character is ethics in action.

Character refers to dispositions and habits that determine the way that person normally responds to desires, fears, challenges, opportunities, failures and successes.

If you pay too much attention to your reputation, you could lose your character.

When it comes to building character, wealth, good looks, athletic ability and even a high IQ are more likely to be impediments than advantages.