Character Quotes

The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not just a plain joke.

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.

For the most part, there's so much of me in my characters.

I don't really mess with Instagram much, but I get why people love it. Because to me, it's better to tell a story through a picture than 140 characters.

I enjoy creating and developing characters, as well as situations. But I have always had more ideas than I can ever put down on paper and fantasy allows me to include a lot of what I feel.

When complicated characters aren't well drawn, they're boring.

I always look for contradiction in a character.

I suppose the reason why I like acting is because I'm curious about human nature, and the less I know about a character on the page, instinctively, in a way, the better.

When I first got the job, I was told nothing about my character. She's an anthropologist and she's tough, she's a female Indiana Jones. That's what I went into [Lost] knowing.

The danger with playing someone tough is that the character can become two-dimensional and mean and nobody likes her.

Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.

There is no escape from mystery. It is the character of our being.

The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.

I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can develop in your head that makes a character more layered, more honest.

I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.

When you look at "American Crime" and you have the character Terri LaCroix is a pharmaceutical executive - why does that character always have to be white?

It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.

Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it.

So, yes, the five years that we've been working on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has evidenced a real deepening of all the characters, not only mine.

The only other series I worked on a regular basis was Benson, and that was a sitcom, so there really wasn't a chance to go deeply into the characters.

But on stage you're able to just take the character from one point to the end and it's a fluid, organic piece. It's about being completely present all the time, right there in the moment.

For me, the lives of children and teens are interesting - they are always changing. There's just so much to sort through. All of this makes for good plots and complex characters.

Every actor hopes that the character that they're playing continues to be a challenge throughout their tenure of their show.

Generally I wouldn't accept work on projects where I didn't agree with the sensibilities behind the main character.

By the time a writer comes onto a project (if they're being hired as a contractor) the main character has usually been designed, as that's always done during a project's pitching stage.

I like to make all my characters interesting. Be they male, female or creatures unknown.

You've got to have a likeability factor, I think, in your comedy characters. If the guy's really, really funny but you just don't like him or her, then you're never going to root for them.

That's one of the best things about characters like Indiana Jones. I mean, he's funny. He's done really wicked things.

You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.

Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

Sometimes you even start to sound like the character, because you're living and breathing them every day on the set. It gets into your bones, it becomes a part of you.

It's a real luxury to be able to develop with your character.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.

I'm not one of those people who as a writer lets my characters tell me what they want to do or call to me or seek me. I go seeking for things, using them as an agent, really.

By making choices consistent with eternal truth you will develop righteous character.

There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal.

Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit.

The ultimate test of a nation's character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge of peace.

Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.

I am a tremendous 'Star Wars' fan; I know the story means an enormous love to me. I love the characters.

I had a very low voice for the character in the show. I said, "That's not actually my voice. That's the character's voice." I'm being such an actor.

I would love to be in the position where the role is challenging enough that I need three months to prepare for it and then six months to live the life of character.

Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.