Character Quotes
I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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.
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.
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.
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?
... 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.
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.
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.
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to
You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
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.
For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors
Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.
Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp.
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."
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.
Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.
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.
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.
... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
Universities are fantastic places to gain knowledge on a subject, develop a personal network, explore your character and learn new techniques to approach problems.
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.
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.
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.
A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God.
Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.
Try to get your characters into interesting trouble. Allow your characters to misbehave. Let them stay out after 11.
From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that's fantastic for me.
Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.
I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.
It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn't know I was doing it.
Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.