Character Quotes

It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.

When I'm at the premiere and I see the film in its entirety, I forget plot, I forget the story, I forget what my character goes through, because I really do just let it go.

I know people with PTSD, and it's very real and very hard. But it doesn't change your core character.

I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

The score is always the wonderful icing. The score tells you the emotional content of the film. What the characters don't say, the music can say.

People don't usually compliment your character.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

Your stage persona is usually a version of yourself, to varying degrees. Some folks do a full-on character, so that's different. But most comics do some version of themselves.

I don't think comics necessarily think in literary terms. There is an element of developing your stage persona and your comedic voice, but I don't think comics see it like a character in a novel.

The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.

It's through the voice that I tend to figure out the character (and through dialogue that I come to understand other characters).

But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.

I have a rule: I will not alter the basic history of a real-life character to suit our fictional needs in a big way.

A lot of people expect to see the same type of character that they see on the field off the field, and that throws them for a loop.

You just drop a character like this that and the other and it's done.

Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level.

The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

Everyone makes mistakes. How a person deals with their mistakes is a mark of their character.

Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.

I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot is. You can't take character and plot apart from each other, really.

The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters.

Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put them down, and simply write down what they do, say, or think.

Whenever I do a movie I always like to base my character off of a couple different characters.

Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing.

Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.

I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.

It is character that counts in a nation as in a man.

He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.

The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken.

Office of itself does much to equalize politicians. It by no means brings all characters to a level; but it does bring high characters down and low characters up towards a common standard.

The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable.

In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.

There are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.

Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.

When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel.

The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.

The characters of man's heart, blotted and confounded as they are with dissembling, lying, counterfeiting, and erroneous doctrines, are legible only to him that searcheth hearts.

As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg, evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of supernatural intervention.

When I was doing character films, I would always try to find something to subvert the standard. You know, to play them exactly for what they are. That's the fun for me.

Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.

Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.