Character Quotes

I think that I prefer to shoot characters even if they are not good people. I don't think that cinema is a place where you can do sentences like in a court.

We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.

In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

When I find material that gives me a natural yet unique character point of view and has well - developed characters throughout the script, it makes the hairs on my arm stand up.

Dialogue is not always the best way to show emotion, to show your thought process, or to reveal yourself, as a character.

Jessica Jones is very unique, and we are all in awe of the response from the public. It seems that everyone connected with the character, and we enjoyed shooting it.

I don't know what the character is going to be. We sit down and we create a character, and all of the characters in all of my films are made like that.

The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be the character.

I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.

I think it was coach Lombardi that said, 'Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it.' And that's so true.

When it's a comedy or drama or horror or romance, it's all the same. You want to be honest with the character. You want to play truthfully and you want to be genuine with your character.

The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.

I think my character rallies people together to go out and drink.

I think when you're looking for scripts or for characters around your own age, a lot of the times they don't have the kind of responsibility that is usually seen in parts that are older for you.

People do not understand that what I do on stage is a character, my fans know who I truly am.

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone.

I'm just enjoying playing a character of myself. People's mouths drop when I dance, but my friends are like, "You dance like that in the kitchen!"

Being me is funny. I've made this weird character, and I think it's really funny.

My job is always going to change; the characters that I'm playing are always going to change. I look forward to playing a grandfather at some point.

You have to have sympathy for the villain. Even the most disgusting ones, you have to find something to connect with. I try to put as much of myself in every single character that I play.

People forget that actors are actors, who are looking to put on the clothes and the character, and then shed it just as easily.

For me, what grabs my attention about the project is usually the character immediately and then the story, and then the people that are involved.

Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.

Sometimes I aid into the confusion by having my character's name be my name.

It doesn't help for you to name a character's first name be Mindy and then be like, "I'm nothing like the character."

I really believe in the characters I play.

I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me.

Narrative and characters have always interested me. I never tried to alienate an audience. Of course, gradually, I wanted a bigger and bigger space to draw people in, so it's very organic [growth].

I really love being a character actor.

I believe I am yet to dance my favorite role, but I am pretty open to adapting to different characters. I would love to be Odette in Swan Lake one day. I think that would be the ultimate role.

One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based.

Character is what someone does, much more than who they are. I can be sarcastic or I can be fearful, but it doesn't really matter until there's a story - until someone comes in and holds us hostage.

I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and those characters live their lives.

It is more important to just be as honest as I can about my characters than to write some really great sentence.

I do use my body a lot, to click into a character.

The clothes, the shoes, the gold belts and the necklaces always click me into the character, for sure. You could not feel the character, and then you put on the shoes and get the walk.

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

I love the idea that somebody is going to compare me to my character or think that I am like my character when they see me. I feel like that is a role that I am willing to fulfill.

My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot.

You can't throw a rock without a comic book character falling out of a tree.

I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and as I opened it the lead character in it was called Morgan Brittany.

Part of acting is having the security to turn yourself loose and let yourself go in order to reach whatever depths a character has. If your guts aren't hanging out there, you don't offer anything.

I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things, so I am drawn to these kinds of characters.

I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage.

I don't have to do anything. The character is shaped on the page.

I do a lot of vintage, of course, but I really feel so particular about clothing. I think it stems from acting, like if I'm not wearing the proper shoes for a character I feel totally off.

I really do like working very closely with a director and developing characters.

I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn't you.

I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.