Character Quotes

I consider myself a character actor.

Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.

It was interesting to portray a character that was so far removed from today's world, but was also at the forefront of feminism at that time.

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.

You know like it has its own personality, its own character.

I don't think about relatability (when writing), I think about the heart of the character.

Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of vivid, passionate feelings.

You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.

What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.

I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories.

There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly.

Sometimes suffering is just suffering,” she told Gus. “It doesn't make you stronger. It doesn't build character. It only hurts.

I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.

It's funny - Frankie Valli's story and that advice that he was just getting from, you know, Christopher Walken's character, is very true for someone who's in a creative field.

You need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep [your] character interesting.

My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.

If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the character talk. Don't censor, don't control. Listen, and write.

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself.

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

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

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

Whether I'm interested [in something] or not, step one is read the script and figure out if a character is someone I'd want to explore or not.

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

You have before you the task of seeking new ways to announce Christ in situations of rapid and often profound transformation, and of emphasizing the missionary character of all pastoral activity.

The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.

I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn.

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.

Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin

You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own.

I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.