Character Quotes
I use a lot of sense memory and, well, I can't really avoid getting into character.
I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.
To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.
Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.
I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.
I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.
I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.
Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.
Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.
When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.
To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.
SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.
Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.
People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.
We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.
There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding
When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters.
That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.
Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation.
The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.
Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.
I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.
The reason why Absurdist plays take place in No Man's Land with only two characters is primarily financial.
Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices
She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free.
To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.
Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.
I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.
I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.
When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.
I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
I've played characters who are dark and have done things I never have experienced, which is why I try to find the reasons why they do what they do. We're all people, and go through similar emotions.
If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.
Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.
Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.
Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honesty choose what is right.