Character Quotes

People are just funny sometimes if you find the right character.

It's always an interesting challenge to see if you can create a character that's got emotion.

I feel that we live in an age where everyone's trying to reduce, and soundbite, and cut it down to140 characters, and that's not what life is.

I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.

A character on a page has to feel real, and for me the greatest fun is if you could gender-swap the role.

Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

If you're really mind-full, and if you underline that aspect of fullness, wholeness, or wholeheartedness, it reveals the gift character of everything.

I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct their speech is. Some of the smartest men in the world couldn't spell. I judge a person by their character.

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

Easy was, like, spending time with Jennifer on set. Difficult stuff about character is, it was a little bit like just being the only one with no superhuman powers.

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'

Six Characters in Search of an Author.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.

Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.

The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.

In a lot of ways, the make-up was the character.

Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

Character is victory organized.

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.

There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.

I wish I could say I had any idea what I was doing when I designed characters. I just take things I like and make my version of it.

I have campaigned all over the state of South Carolina. It is the friendliest state in the country. And truly here people judge you by the content of your character not the color of your skin.

Like one's own children, golf has an uncanny way of endearing itself to us while at the same time evoking every weakness of mind and character, no matter how well hidden.

Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.

I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

I'd always wanted to do a film than TV show because film is always where my heart has been. I like diving into the character for a few months, and then leaving it behind. I love the idea of that.

[In the Flash my character] is not even CSI, it's forensic, talking about the stratum corneum...Yeah, I was referring to my Latin book often to make sure I pronounce things correct.

Where are the vehicles to character development in secular society?

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

I can't impersonate someone. That is not what I do. I can only take someone's essence and create a character out of that.

I just try to be honest and true to the character and play the part.

[on her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files (1993)] I am more spontaneous than my character.

When I'm inside the character, I feel like I'm a different person, and then when you see that character on screen and I see that it's me, I find that disappointing.

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)

I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.