Character Quotes

If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own.

I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before.

There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

I might revisit - I like the idea of doing something else with [Hunt for the Wilderpeople characters]. But also I get bored of doing the same thing again. I just get bored.

You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play.

Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names.

Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.

War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

Those are always fun characters to play, the ones who are stupid but speak with authority.

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.

It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.

If you compare my character to the others, they were sexy with designer clothes. I had the nerdy outfit.

You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.

I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time.

The journey to freedom is paved by the substance of our character.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

I want a script to affect me in some way. I am usually drawn to character studies, scripts about real people and the world we live in not some fantasy.

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not.

I believe that the sphere of service, your career, the plan which God has mapped out for you and prepared for you, is the greatest agency in His hands to conform You to His character and to His will.

Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.

Racing is bulging at the seams with pure nutball characters, men who can drink more, screw more, fight more, laugh more, joke more, than practically any collection of people in the world.

One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

In revision, your imagination becomes deeply engaged with your material. It's when you come to know your characters and begin to perceive their motivations and values.

Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.

There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word.

The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with accommodation or adaptation to the environment.

There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? - he had better quit.

Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence.

It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.

Well, Ive always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

Character is fate. (Destiny).

I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.

I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.

A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

America has but one main problem -- the character of the men and women it shall produce.

Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality.

Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to study and help you create the character.