Character Quotes

New York has their own character. I love the fans here. They are very honest, and I love that.

I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.

I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.

The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.

With any character I have played there’s infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.

I enjoy playing a quintessential antihero. There's something therapeutic about playing such characters. I know it sounds corny but I feel like I learn about myself when I play that characters.

I don't build character. I eliminate the people who don't have it.

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.

And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

In Garden Party or 40 Days and 40 Nights, I played characters who people dont necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them.

Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.

Each character has their own challenges. The challenge to doing one scene is your whole history of who you are and your relationships, you only have this one shot.

Do the work. Create the character, don't wing it and don't hope for an award or the Red Carpet. At the end of day the people who stay in the line the longest are the people who are good.

I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

My characters are galley slaves.

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.

It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.

The more we can put the camera in a better place, the more we can take the audience on a more extreme journey with that character.

I'm so critical, especially of the movies I do. If the movie flows and I buy it, that's important. Beyond it working, if I buy the character, especially if I'm close to the character.

"The Fever" is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.

We need wilderness preserved-as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds-because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed.

It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.

There's no such thing as life; or if there is, It is faster than the weather, faster than Any character. It is more than any scene: Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging.

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.

Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.

I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions.

Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.

Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.

Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.

The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

Judgment without character is expediency... or worse.

As the story unfolded, the cast of characters changed to match it.

When I came up with the character of Wicket for 'Return Of The Jedi', which was my first film, I was a kid of 11 years old, and I basically was playing a very young Ewok.

When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.

There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.

Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character.

The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.

I always felt completely confident - it's like in a feature film, knowing your principle character is extremely well-cast. I had that same confidence in Clive [Oppenheimer].