Character Quotes

All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally important.

Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting.

I think ultimately that's why the audience will tune in longterm, for the characters and the relationships.

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

I take the sexy girl parts and try to give them something else and make them a character.

I think leadership is more than being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

How you do anything is how you do everything. Your "character" or "nature" just refers to how you handle all the day-to-day things in life, no matter how small.

Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.

I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime.

If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

Strength and independence are always something that I'm drawn to in all my characters, no matter how different they are from one another.

We have many Lisas, Marks, Dennys, Johnnys, and other characters from 'The Room' in America and in the entire world.

... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.

You have the morals of rabbit, the character of a slug, and the brain of a platypus.

I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work.

Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.

I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you.

Integrity is the core of our character.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

As long as a character doesnt die, the character can always come back.

Dyslexia is a neurological issue, not a character flaw.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.

The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.

I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself.

Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence.

Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.

Those who are repeatedly passive in the face of injustice soon find their character corroded.

I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.

Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.

Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.

Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.

Jesus stands absolutely alone in history; in teaching, in example, in character, an exception, a marvel, and He is Himself the evidence of Christianity.

Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.

I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

I'll be able to pull off playing an unlikable character because inherently, I think I'm likable.

Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this ''Obama'' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something.

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

You have to play your characters, not like them.

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.