Character Quotes

When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.

Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

I think that Brighton, for a crime writer, is almost like a character.

I find the voice is what I look for first and foremost with just about every character I play.

I like to do movies, because I love becoming different characters, and telling different stories through different eyes, and affecting someone's life in one way or another.

When we look at films, we usually see only the action. Yet it is the decision to act that helps us understand how the character's mind works.

George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.

I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.

It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle.

If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.

The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.

Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

I really started hanging out with Steve [Murphy, the inspiration for Holbrook's character] a lot. I got educated that way. It was crash course. You learn as quickly as possible.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.

We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.

Character is fate.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.

To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.

Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events.

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.

George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.

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.

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.

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.

Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.

Character Education helps to create an environment for caring and learning in schools.

To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.

What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.

For me, the key is always trying to find the connection between the audience and the character I'm playing. That's important to me, in any work I do.

I want to be challenged. Every job I've done so far, every character has been completely different and that's really important to me because I don't want to fall into a stereotypical box.

I like playing misfits, I like playing oddballs, I like playing characters with rough edges.

If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.

I'm a character actor.

Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

The truth of the matter is this - I never look for films specifically, because ultimately if the fundamentals of the character and the script and the director aren't there, it makes it a moot point.

The faith that has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.

The force of character is cumulative.

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

I try to be really, really specific, because each character is really an individual and you have to find out what makes them unique.

Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps

It was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.

People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.

Value work. But not any kind of work. Ask yourself "Is the work vital, strengthening my own character, or inspiring others, or helping the world?".