Character Quotes

Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine.

The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.

Acting has helped me detox in football. Getting lost in a character and a scene, it's awesome.

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it.

The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with democracy.

It is unpleasant to see character throw itself away.

What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him.

I do like to explore evil characters in my books.

Having the audience know more than the characters is precisely where you want to be in terms of drama. You can engage them much more when that is the case.

As an actor playing a character, I can't come in with my judgement, or else I can't play it honestly. My judgement has to be reserved for later.

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

I think having funny characters is just one way of having three-dimensional characters.

It's a combination of yes - making a movie about the characters - and then, also, budget.

It's not the plot [of Valley of Violence] - the plot is the reason to get all these things to happen, all these character moments to happen. It was always meant to have these two perspectives.

It's very important to me to find ways to relate the audience to the characters. This is the first thing to go in most mainstream horror films.

My fans and people who know of my character want to see me become more successful.

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters.

That's why I like old monster movie actors, because they transform into different characters or creatures.

I think USA has a great handle on programming and content. They know their viewers and they know what works... Character driven programming!

I feel very fortunate to be an actor on a network whose tag line is Characters Welcome and not Procedurals Welcome.

The national security issues are a really good window into the character of the person that somebody wants to have as commander in chief.

I don't want to make a movie for 100,000 fans that nobody else in the world sees, because I don't think that's good for the character.

Being an animator, and I've directed tons of mo-cap, which really is about how do characters move through space.

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.

The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.

Finally the world would see my full range of comedy characters - from grouchy librarian to Russian librarian.

I felt like that character in Flowers for Algernon. Not Charlie, the lady teacher from the college who realizes, 'I've got to stop dry-humping this mentally challenged guy!

Your characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter.

If you care about [the characters] as if they were real, that always helps.

I consciously try not to play favorites with my characters or my books.

I watched a film called 'Elephant' recently. Its not stylish in the sense of expensive suits and Italian cars, but the styling on every single character is spot on.

I've developed a way to separate myself from me being me, to me being the character. I can separate watching me, Tinsel Korey, from watching Emily

What attracts me specifically to roles is the heart of the character.

With any character, you want the audience to at least empathize.

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

I'm very interested in people, so if a character happens to be real, there's that much more to look at.

The Johnny Depp generation has this kind of brooding, weighty, introspective quality, very James Deanish. Which is nice, great for a lot of characters.

It's always hard for the first movie because you have to spend so much time introducing the characters.

You want to tell a great story. You want these characters to become part of people's lives. And then, hopefully, that generates discussion.

Batman is easily my most favorite character beside Spawn.

I just thinks it's interesting what it takes an actor to find their characters through the wardrobe, or the hair, or the way a character walks.

With me, it's clothing and makeup and hair and all that stuff that inform how the character moves and feels.

Susan Rebecca White has a keen sense for how her characters talk and think. An impressive debut.

Of course I'd sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where I grew up.

Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough