Character Quotes

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.

It's nice to have someone write a couture character for you.

It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.

When you're playing something, hopefully, if you're doing your best, you're advocating for your character and you're not trying to think too much.

And that doesn't cost any money, to have decent relationships and viable situations. What costs money is car chases and shoot-outs, so I always thought that the thing to work on was the characters.

No one thinks they're irritating. Nobody thinks they're boring. So if you're playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves.

I'm quite excited to not play a Xena type character - it's probably closer to me than any character I've ever played.

I put my heart and soul into my book - great story and awesome characters... yet people are trying to pull me down.

Well, it was very interesting to play a character and stretch it over such a long time - 12 episodes. I had never done a TV show before, so week to week it was unclear what we would be asked to do.

People are writing shorter jokes. The style I've started with was almost trying to keep jokes under 140 characters before Twitter.

I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.

Every woman is a character - but people need to see I'm a regular human. It's like you wear a pink wig and you're no longer human all of sudden.

You reveal your own character most clearly when you describe someone else's.

Here's my take on Instagram: It's so ridiculous that people can go on and play characters, and none of it [should be] taken too seriously.

I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes.

I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day.

I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies.

All of my characters have a glint of madness.

I think that the best characters are the ones who both manage to be attractive and repulsive at the same time.

I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character.

Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.

I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.

I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.

When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions.

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

I think that television has become really, really interesting, in terms of character development. You can have 13 hours to develop a character, as opposed to 25 minutes in a movie. That excites me.

Everything we do is about the emotion of the characters. We believe the better the emotion, the better the movie.

The character requires so many elements. The only one who could fulfill that was this one person: Elle Fanning.

I like the early comic book characters more than the new ones.

I believe shooting chronologically gives you a very fresh perspective and you're always aware of where you are in the development of the characters.

My grandma has said many of the things her character says. But she was much nicer! I made her meaner for dramatic purposes.

I suppose the underlying current for me is the idea of not doing something I've done before. I call myself a character actor and I'm always trying to stay a character actor.

I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.

I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.

Stay humble to the craft and never forget how much it actually takes to be the main character of a documentary.

I never approach a character from a negative place.

It was very important to me to choose a director like Gary [Ross], whose instincts come from character, who's a storyteller, and who puts characters first.

To please the Divine, our character, our behavior should be absolutely clean.

You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.

I don't agree with the idea that my characters are unlikeable.

I'm interested in music as an extension of character.

In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.

My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.

Weirdly enough, I don't like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the characters, so it always needs to run through my own veins.

I think that I'm very passionate, and I know that if I decide to do a film, my character is going to take over my life.

The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.

I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.