Character Quotes

My characters come from a good place.

I love playing darker roles, or roles with meat. I feel very comfortable in that environment. I don't know why. I don't know what that says about me. I really enjoy doing complicated characters.

I want to do a little bit of everything. I want to play a good, strong female character.

I hope to be known as a chameleon actress, as someone who can play any part out there, and someone who can transform herself into any kind of character there is.

The first movie [Grown Ups], people loved it and we felt that there were so many characters and so many good comic situations that there was enough material leftover for us to do a sequel.

Every character is asking: Whats my place? Why am I here? I dont want the answer to be Just because. You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

I dont believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.

I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them.

In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a little bit more likable.

Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.

That wasn't love; that was stupidity.

Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour.

If I want to play mind games, I'd buy a Rubik's cube. ~ Acheron, a character.

I try not so much to create new characters and worlds but to create new game-play experiences.

I try to create as many circumstances outside of set that help me fall into character when I get onto set.

I love doing a television show. It just always feels like it's a little while before you find something that feels unique and that feels like a character that you really want to play for awhile.

Saul Bellow has that character in Henderson the Rain King say: "I want, I want, I want!"9 I remember reading this passage years ago and thinking, yes, that's the human.

In a way, this kind of insight or recognition often permeates the way I think of character, how I plot action, and the way in which I use imagery, seeing binaries as false.

I simply channeled a character, this time I allowed the character to inhabit me.

Im a character actor at heart.

It's rather rare when you play an older character in a movie in a supporting role to even get an arc.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.

I love con-men characters in film.

The biggest challenge is not the storytelling, it's to track every character's arc through the entire movie.

I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing.

Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.

You relate to a character and you find that character within yourself. It's all parts of me. I don't leave characters behind. I just let them go.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.

I don't want to be known for anything other than the fact that I play characters in movies.

I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.

Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.

We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.

Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.

You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally.

I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.

If it's a language you don't understand and you're not concerned with the meanings of the words, your impression comes from how the words look, particularly if the language uses different characters.

Among the fearless soldiers that fight for your victory in life, character has no equal.

Character is just what we inwardly are and outwardly do.

A perfect society is built upon mutual trust. Character is the source of that trust.

Character is blazing sunshine in the soul's abode, the body.

Character is the colossal hope of human improvement within and without.

The secret of inner success is constancy to our highest character. -

When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness, that is one reason why corruption has become so widespread today.

Actors, it's very hard for them to make value judgments when they play characters. It's very dangerous if you start thinking of yourself as a bad guy.

I look for characters who are emotionally driven.

I couldn't say no when I received that offer [to re-invent the DC characters]... How can any writer say no to the opportunity of redoing every one of DC's top superheroes?

I have to believe in the character to perform it.

Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.