Character Quotes

One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.

Quality of character doesn't make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process.

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.

My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible for them to get there.

I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them.

I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.

Lot of stories in deceit, how characters deceive other people, but most of all, I think, how they deceive themselves. We're not as tricky as we think we are.

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.

I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.

I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

Redford builds a riveting, resonant political thriller that values the complexity of its characters and the intelligence of its audience.

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

Discipline is the bedrock of character.

I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.

I must point out - Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva - she's one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes.

I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing.

I believe you can only draw from your own life as an actor. All the characters I've played, I only have my infinite eye and the presence of my life to take from.

No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.

It was intimidating to play a deaf character. There's a whole culture in the deaf community and I really wanted to know a lot about that and honor it in the work.

Well, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different.

I always prefer to write songs about emotional situations and heartbreak because I like getting into the character.

I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song.

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

Character is inured habit.

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

I'm really attracted to strong women. Let me rephrase that, I'm really attracted to strong female characters.

A character is 2D, and then after I come in it becomes a 3D; it becomes alive.

I don't ever want to do the same character twice. Variety excites me.

No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.

I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them.

I won't even think about acting in a role where I didn't do a back story for a character.

The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they just lead the way.

I will never do Pulp [Fiction] 2 but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.

Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't.

I had always wanted to lend my voice to a character. I did a voice for this video game, called 'Fallout 3,' and that was really fun.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

We read the [Dracula] scripts, but Jess [De Gouw] and I are completely taken out of the hunts and anything with Van Helsing. We're just living our lives, as our characters.

Writers get to know me very well. It always serves me in the end because I feel I have a deeper understanding of the character and sometimes they really like my ideas and they use them.

I'm not much of a Method actress, so even though my character in The Ghost Writer was quite dark and bad-tempered, I could only do that if I was seeming quite perky.