Character Quotes

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

The predominant difference between television and film is the pace to which you work, but the development of the character or the process for playing the character isn't necessarily different.

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.

I love a straightforward character. I am the guy who loves Cyclops on the 'X-Men', because he is square.

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.

Rebellion is necessary for development of character.

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.

It was a nephilim.” “A nephi-what?” asked Hugh, startled. “Isn’t that a character on Sesame Street?” Peter spoke up for the first time.

Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life.

I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.

Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.

I find myself maybe just pushing myself to create characters that are a little outside the box, and if that sort of gets the critics talking, then I can take it.

Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.

I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.

The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.

Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

I sign a film according to my instincts and everything in each department must be appealing be it story, character etc.

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

Visual forms are not perceived differently from colors or brightness. They are sense qualities, and the visual character of geometry consists in these sense qualities.

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.

Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them different expression, according to age, complexion, and good or bad character.

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

I enjoy the character interplay. Sometimes the audience is not laughing, but smiling, and that is almost just as good because it keeps them ready to laugh.

I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.

Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation.

I always think once you have the lead protagonist, you cast around that character.

My journey has been that of a character actor.

As a character, you're working within the realm of what's on the [script] page.

A winemaker never, never changes the character of a wine. The character comes from the grapes.

Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.

Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.

An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted.

When you know psychologically what [characters] are feeling, then that plays out on how you dress a lot of times.