Character Quotes

My problem has been with purely digital films. I feel the danger there is that the kind of short-cuts you end up having to take are the ones that are most telling in the main characters.

Any place that manufactures humans into weapons is going to piss off a couple members of X-Force. I always want a personal reason for why these characters take on these missions.

All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.

God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.

What happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside you. Your circumstances are temporary, but your character will last forever.

Character is never built in a classroom; it is built in the circumstances of life.

What you BECOME on earth matters far more than what you DO. You're taking your character to heaven, not your career.

I think that's the fundamental thing - you can go anywhere you like as long as you're following a character that the audience likes and understands.

You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got to be real.

I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.

When you have an audience, and you have people who want to see your character and want to see you, it's really amazing.

I like playing really super-intense, live-in-the-moment characters. It asks me to not phone it in. It's impossible to phone it in. Every American boy has spent his childhood pretending to get shot.

The really good thing about my career is that I never went through a phase where I played characters who had names like "Partygoer," "Waiter," or "Guy #1."

The nuances and organic characteristics of a character become second nature if I'm doing my job well.

Our amour fou with 'The Sopranos' is headed for long-term parking, like so many of its most memorable characters. We'll never see a show like this again.

Every time I make a movie I have too many characters and too many locations.

Just being the first person to bring the character to life is really fun and exciting.

It's nice to be playing a character who's never had a live-action version before.

If you are not leaning, no one will let you down.

Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand to construct the skeleton.

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.

Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.

Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green.

Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film.

I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.

The audience can feel the subtleties of the characters.

Every time I feel that I really hit critical mass and I'm in the right place is when I feel like the director and I become a third thing, and that's the character.

But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds.

If you don't invest in the characters, you don't care if they get killed. It's more fun if you know them.

It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.

Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal.

...then we went skinny dippin' and did things that frighten the fish... Character, Shelby Eatonton, from the movie, Steel Magnolias.

I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation.

While there are things with this job that remain constant, in terms of how you shoot, the actual crux of the character is always different and always evolving.

I have things planned for every character like what they're doing down the road and coming to different realizations but I don't have how they overlap.

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry

I would have liked to come back in 300; they did an origins film of 300 just recently, and it would have been fun to come back and see what happened to my character.

I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.

Writers, good ones, don't tell stories. Characters show stories.

There's a thing, in general, about doing any kind of series, especially when the characters remain the same, to go back and try to improve whatever you did in the last movie, which never happens.

You're trying to play an archetype on one hand and a character on the other, so I felt insanely frustrated, right up until the last shot, and then it ended.

It's easy to get stagnate, if you play the same character. In New Moon, I felt like I was going a little bit deeper.

With Eclipse, I felt like I was doing a completely different movie and a completely different character. So, yeah, it was nice and challenging.

I don't even know if Stephenie [Meyer] could tell you why she was so fixated on [Twilight] very, very contained story about these very obsessive characters. It's just an anomaly.

I always think that you have to have a certain understanding of what an audience would want to see from you as a public person as well as a character.

Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.

The characters have desperation and it doesn't work out for everyone. Maybe it's not fair because I'm responding to the adaptations that smooth out the edges.

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries.