Character Quotes

I really love the Marvel universe, one of my favorite is Daredevil. I really love also the Punisher and I don't understand why they made so many bad movies on that character.

For me it's important to get the origin of the character like in the Richard Donner superman. We saw him became slowly a super hero but i think it's important to take time and stay realistic.

For Daredevil I think Sam Wortington could be very great and intense for this character. For the vilain it's depênd of the story.

Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way.

Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.

I don't want to be the funny girl or the serious girl. I would hope to touch on all different genres and all different types of characters, which I think I've been lucky enough to do, so far.

I can't remember. . . . My character was sort of unconscious for it.

It depresses me when people expect me to be like the characters I play on film. I'm not some whiny loser punk, I'm a man's man.

Honestly, the only way Garden State could have been better was if I played every character. I'm awesome.

My stand-up is more like how I am in real life. I don't really do a character thing in stand-up. It's just a bunch of sentences that are supposed to be funny.

I like characters that are fragile and a little bit on the edge .

I'm looking forward to playing some really despicable characters at some point in my career so I can branch out and stretch those acting muscles. But I wouldn't want to do that on a regular basis.

I am a huge comic book nerd and video game nerd, so to get to actually play one of those characters would be off the chain. It would be amazing.

When I was a kid, I used to be way more nerdy about comic books and comic book characters. I still love them, but I don't collect anymore.

Deadpool would have been an amazing character to play, but Ryan Reynolds already did that.

Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.

I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.

[Edward Snowden and his team] they're great characters. They're fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.

I do like Superman as a character, and I have followed him throughout the years.

I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.

A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence.

My job has always been to not only make my character look like a badass but to also make the actor I am fighting opposite to be the character they need to be too.

My job as a double was always to put [actors] at ease. My job was to make my character, or the actress that I was doubling, look as badass as possible by being there.

It was fun to create characters who had truth to them but were also made up so as not to completely offend!

I feel like a lot of my work on stage, I've gotten to play a wider range of characters than I have on film. This feels closer to who I am than stuff I've played on stage, or, like, Olive Kitteridge.

It's always fun to play characters that are different from me.

I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.

If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.

I would like to be remembered as someone who gave it all and went for it all, As a woman of strong conviction, character, dignity, and talent who always put God first.

Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.

And don’t forget, if you are very intelligent but load yourself with bad characters, nobody will follow you.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have many intelligent people who lack good characters.

LADY BRACKNELLTo speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.

When the leader goes wayward, the organization goes wayward.

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody knows that but you.

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

...[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not.

And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball...

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

Men of few words are the best men."(3.2.41)