Character Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I consider myself a character actor.

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

Playing normal-looking characters really intimidatesme. I got into acting to play anyone but me.

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto'o, two fantastic African footballers. So successful. And very nice characters as well. I got the luck to know them personally. They helped me a lot.

I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.

I always try to honor a character by being honest and truthful to who they are, in spite of my own personality and beliefs.

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

It's easier to make a good person better than to make a bad person good.

The character of Rocky was built on the idea that he was chosen to do something. That's why the first image in Rocky is the picture of Christ.

The faculty of continual transformation... is a profound expression of the dynamic character of the mind

Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]

The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.

Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters!

The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.

People think I'm a Simpsons character.

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.

I never set out to make any statements about a specific character, I just set out to tell what feels like is a truthful story, a person that you and I might truly encounter.

In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.

But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.

There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.

There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.

With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.