Character Quotes

Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather.

To be honest, I don't think of any of my characters as minor characters - they're all the main characters in a story that I don't necessarily get to tell.

Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.

Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits by the love we give.

Sow a character, you reap your destiny.

Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might mean.

The music industry is such a huge machine. There are still a lot of good people in it, but the character of the industry and the culture of the industry is very fast.

The best way to reveal a character is to get them to open their mouths.

I like naming characters.

I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.

I enjoy playing evil, but not one-dimensional evil characters. I like the ebbs and cracks in the armor.

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.

It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

Buffett’s genius was largely a genius of character—of patience, discipline, and rationality.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

I always try to get as personal as I can with the characters that I play, which is a reason why I don't play a lot of characters.

Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

It's hard for actors to have to deal with the fact that they pour so much into their character, but the audience might have a negative assessment of them.

Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.

American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative.

I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

Character makes its own destiny.

I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.

Respect the way characters may change once they've got 50 pages of life in them. Revisit your plan at this stage and see whether certain things have to be altered to take account of these changes.

I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.

The decision to do it [play Maigret] was related to the fact that the character is a very ordinary man, and generally speaking I haven't played very many ordinary men.

I think you're bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It's not something you often do in comedy.

The first couple of weeks of filming were quite tricky for me to find my feet with the character [Maigret], which wasn't helped by the story that we were telling.

Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.

Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.

I think a lot, so I don't spend a lot of time actually writing - I do that part very quickly. That helps, for me. To keep track of the characters.

When I think about my Glamazon, would that character get down if someone said her thighs were heavy? No, she knows what other people think is none of her damn business.

The opulence of Wilde is a bit too florid for Sherlock, who is a much darker character, ... fascinated by the human condition, but also overwhelmed by it.

The script is really always the main attraction, and then there's whether there is an interesting character and great people around you. Those are the key elements that I look for.

For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values.

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.

Whatever you think of Romney and his politics, as a human being there's none better. As a man of integrity, man of character, there's none better.

We're dealing with character assassins. We're dealing with career assassins. That's who the media is today.

Donald Trump has been mischaracterized, misdiagnosed, his character has been assaulted from the get-go by both Republicans and the Hillary Clinton campaign.

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.

I struggle in these situations not to let my madness govern me, and to let the positive aspects of my character define my life.

I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.