Character Quotes
On set, the playground for the character, how much it takes varies. Is it like ballet, is it like jazz? The content always lends itself to the form, and it's really not mathematics.
If you're constantly stepping outside of the character and judging them, you'll never really be able to fully engage because you'll always be slightly cynical.
By God's design, I believe our hearts and minds are shaped by Story. It's how we learn. It's how we make sense of the world. Characters, situations, moral consequences are all around us.
Universities are fantastic places to gain knowledge on a subject, develop a personal network, explore your character and learn new techniques to approach problems.
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.
I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.
I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points.
Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.
Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I'm not an actor who can just play the kid.
The people "have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge- I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers."
Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp.
To put a lot of hard work and effort into a project or character and for it to be recognised, how can it not be nice?
A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry.
When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.
Liberals could live their whole lives never having to hear an actual conservative opinion other than the idiotic arguments written for conservative characters on Aaron Sorkin's little teleplays.
The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
Altruism is written in everlasting and resplendent character on the Cross of Christ, and it was at Calvary that the centre of life was shifted from selfishness to sacrifice.
There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.
Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.
For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
I like movies about people and movies with characters; that's what I'm drawn to as a person who likes to create these characters within the story, but I like it all, really.
... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that debase human character.
Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more outside respectability, he is just the old man, the same character at heart he ever was?
I've always had this juxtaposition of characters, because I'm an artist. I'm a very quiet person at home and introspective and the whole deal, and then I can be really big later. I had no problem.
Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.
Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game.
I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.
As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is a graceful gesture of recognition or waving of the body toward it.
The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.