Character Quotes

You are the spokesman for your character, you put on his case. Are you going to win or lose? There'll be no drama if you look like a loser at the outset.

I think hand-drawn animation can be something really special. If the character design is quite simple it has the ability to allow people to easily relate to the characters in a special manner.

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.

The character, position and weight of an object are in the edge.

It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

It's good to know that other people think differently, and that's what makes the characters interesting.

It's always interesting to play characters who are vulnerable and how you display that vulnerability and what it's going to mean to people who watch it.

One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.

The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.

The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

I haven't personally in my real life had many people close to me die, but my characters have, and I've had to live that as though it's real. And it can take a really big emotional toll on someone.

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.

Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.

The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.

I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them.

In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind

There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.

You never play age, you play character.

Ive never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didnt choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

The very term 'combinatorial methods' has an oxymoronic character.

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.

There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.

Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character.

Women are always self-effacing and self-denying. There's a term that enrages me, and I always used to swear that I'd never play characters described that way. The term is "long-suffering."

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

Missionary service is not only a test of faith but a real test of character.

Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.

It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Sin may then be defined ultimately as anything in the creature which does not express, or which is contrary to, the holy character of the Creator

I've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack.

Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.

The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination.

Women show off their personality and character through accessories more than with low-cut shirts and skirts with huge slits.

Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

I had always functioned with dignity, wanting to appear intelligent, macho, never vulnerable or insecure. But now I realize that... a part of these comic characters is a fundamental part of me too.

It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.