Character Quotes

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

When you play a non-fiction character it is more responsibility than when you are playing a fiction character because that person lived, and you do want to pay respect to that.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain.

[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I've played. He's lost the power to love, which doesn't make him a nasty person. I just think he's closed-off.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character.

Character is the only secure foundation of the state.

For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.

In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded.

As many know, the Chinese expression for "crisis" consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for "danger," the second the symbol for "opportunity."

As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.

As far as subject matter, I'd say most of the songs aren't that personal to me. I love making up characters and kind of having fun in a different kind of way.

I like the idea of characters without shame, who hold nothing back.

Definitely, my approach is me-oriented. I feel like my job is to safeguard the believability of the emotions of the character.

If you have no enemies, you have no character.

The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.

In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

Your mind has a way of putting limitations on your goals. When you persevere, you develop character. Nobody knows their ceiling.

A man kept his character even when he was insane.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Any time you get a chance to play a great role, I consider all the qualities I may or may not have attributed to that character and how I would fit into the story.

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

I want to play characters that are interesting to watch.

Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture, no character and no public trust.

I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' yeah, that's what I look for.

It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."

The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is.

Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.

You have to be willing to expose yourself, at least to yourself, to get to some kind of truth about a character.

You and I are characters in God's Story, handmade by Him. Every character serves a purpose.

I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.

Education must be orientated towards the attainment of character for leading clean simple lives.

What is important is to maintain integrity of the story, of the character, of the movie, even if it's a big production.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes.

I like characters that do big things boldly and are driven by intensely personal feelings.

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.