Character Quotes
You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.
Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character. Which makes the big decisions.
Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.
There's only a handful of directors who really understand what I call the alchemical balance between a man and a woman, in a woman's body, which most people consider the strong woman character.
Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.
I think wardrobe is a really important part of making a movie and developing the character.
People love to talk about how the '70s are the only time they made movies about characters, and adult movies, and complicated people. But in the '80s, they got away with some of those too.
Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development.
Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.
There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot'.
The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.
Fate is a funny character. She puts obstacles in your path to see what character ye have. Life isn't fair,life is a test.
I do not believe that a child can be reformed by lock and key and bars, or that fear can ever develop a child's character.
How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.
Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character
I don’t get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day, what you gotta do is just go out there and do it.
I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.
He is, as you say, a remarkable horse, a prodigious horse, although as you very justly observe, a suspicious and untractable character.
For me, pressure is self-imposed, and it's good for me. The best actors are the most prepared because it's all imaginary and you have to know the character inside out.
... what's in a person's heart and soul will not likely be changed by the ability to command a helicopter to land on the South Lawn.
I can only play characters that I feel like are real people and in a complete way and in such a whole way that if I fake any aspect of it I will have failed them and literally they're slaughtered.
Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.
I do love that witches havent really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
Given the loss of a child or the birth of a child or anything like that, I think it's just I'm more moved by life, the older I get, so it's easier to connect to the characters that I play.
The core of character lies in each individual story person's ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly that something is important.
When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.
To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.
Character Education helps to create an environment for caring and learning in schools.
For me and my storytelling and the way that I embrace stories in the way that I embrace characters, I desperately needed to know that everything was okay.
It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.
George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.
A cartoon character isn't a specific person. It isn't Tom Cruise or George Clooney playing the part, it's a character that could be you. It's easier for you to get drawn into it in a special way.
To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.
I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.
We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
