Character Quotes

The idea of Cable as a man out to protect his daughter by any means necessary gives the character an emotional heft and underlines everything he does. It's richly fulfilling.

We're characters not of this world, so our knowledge about stuff, that other character's don't have, is quite fun.

If I have no connection with the character, then it's all fake - it's just blah, blah, blah.

Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.

I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.

I seem to voice a lot of sweet, kind of dumb yellow characters for some reason.

When you are drawing characters to serve a plot purpose, you tend to get flat, stereotyped, unliving characters.

You don't do characters that are the same as you, otherwise why bother to act?

It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done the hard part - made up a story, provided the characters.

I think ultimately one would say that the most difficult part of the Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer is the balancing of the main character. To get him being so ambivalent in his whole conception.

I've never really been a fan of violence. I'm more into the characters and their journey and those kinds of movies don't really allow for that. It's a different focus.

I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.

I personally kind of yearn to play characters who are complex and who strike a truthful chord in me and who are challenged in some way and, I guess, who kind of move through those challenges.

If you look at my body of work, my characters drastically vary, and so I typically don't play the same role. It makes me feel reborn with each role.

I've had the opportunity to do a wide range of stuff, a lot of different characters and they've all had their own kind of thing.

I think the love scenes are very powerful and they're not trying to simply show the bodies of the actors but trying to reflect the inner feelings of the character so it's easier in that way.

I'm drawn to dark characters, and to things that are really weighty.

I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

Every character I do is based on someone I know.

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

Every person has contributed to me as a human, but a lot of the characters I do are ones I created.

James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.

I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.

The most important thing, when playing characters with chemistry, is being able to work off the other actor and be supported.

I think what I find challenging is just trying to bring a truthfulness and a realism to a character.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

I'm not a character in any of my books.

I'm not vouching for Putin's character, he seems like a shady guy. Hard to see why he's a threat was.

You got to constantly be in character.

I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.

Sometimes my characters are not myself.

I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.

Artists who are relevant today won't be tomorrow unless someone does the right thing by their character and preserves it in the dialogue of a movie.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point.

And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.

Stephen Moyer is probably the most gracious, gifted actor that Ive met. Hes really intelligent. He has a real sensitivity to his character, to scenes, to scripts.

I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and character than the choice - or absence - of color.

I feel like women have an easier time separating from their characters than men do.

Movies and acting are so much fun. I love playing different characters and doing different genres. It's all still very interesting to me.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

Animation taught me to draw quickly and clearly and to communicate a character's feelings through his or her body language and facial expressions.

I love drawing what the character is feeling, in my comics, with no dialogue.

When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them - my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a wife, as a lover, as a daughter.

As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.