Character Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.

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.

I am the character you are not supposed to like.

Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own.

The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.

In homes where high ideals and gospel values are maintained, it is parents, not teachers, who lay the foundation of character and faith in the hearts of their children.

My mother was pretty nuts, but she was also a character.

To me, character in a person is judged by the decisions that are made under pressure.

I want to play challenging characters. You should never be satisfied.

We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing.

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.

I think the first trick to writing a feminist work is to write plenty of women. That way you get to write characters, instead of worrying about paradigms.

Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you more freedom because it makes it less about yourself.

Zachary Roerig who plays Matt, he's just a character.

I've never done coke or anything, and I've never played a character who has, so I don't know whether I would actually try coke if I had to play a character who took coke.

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.

My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.

I read a lot of articles about young women in the resistance. All of a sudden, I felt that if I go too much into this horror, then I won't be able to start as a fresh character.

Going back is a nice way to give definition to each of the characters because they are so vastly different. I would never want them to get blended together.

Good means ultimately he's producing character in me to conform me into the image of Christ.

What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters.

A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.

Meryl [Streep] plays the me-ish character. I love Meryl. She's totally wonderful.

In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.

I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.

If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

I think I prefer singing in falsetto. I like the way it sounds. It doesn't sound like my natural voice. It sounds like a character.

Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.

Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.

I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you've made.

I think one of the few times I've been involved with real-life characters was the story of Marie Bonaparte. I think it's really difficult to become someone that really existed.

I want to continually play characters that speak to me, but also are different than what I've just done.