Character Quotes

God does not want you to become a God; he wants you to become godly - taking on his values, attitudes, and character.

Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting.

It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.

I think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly.

My character Jack in the New York Spring Spectacular is a lot of fun. He's playful, he's full of life. He can make things come to life. He can make things happen.

I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.

It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

Russian directors, we are shooting the same streets. The same things. Tom Jacobson has a fresh eye and found very interesting and very cool locations and angles and characters.

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.

My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me.

I went through about 40 different hats until we found one that fit. It had to fit me and fit the character, more importantly, and whatever that thing was that we were trying to create with him.

Find me a servant who admires his Master and you will have found two good men.

Character is the best security.

I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing a character over multiple hours, as opposed to two.

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.

If you're playing the character, you could say to yourself in 16 different ways, 'What if that didn't bother me?' 'What if I knew exactly what he was talking about?' 'What if I didn't get excited?'

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.

The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for the world.

...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.

From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character.

If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.

I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response.

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.

It's masturbation for writers to be able to write this absolutely outrageous personality, in a character that you somehow agree with, part of the time, at least.

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

If you take the time away, you take the character away.

Godly character flows out of devotion to God and practically confirms the reality of that devotion.

Every character is a baby. You can't choose between them. If you can, you didn't do your job. You have to fall in love with every character.

Mostly, I'm drawn to great characters and great worlds that use weird things for their language - whether it's dance, whether it's pop music with Justin Bieber, or whether it's magic.

The fact that so many are willing to accept need-based aid signals a fundamental change in the American character.

Nobody ever recognizes themselves unless they are not the character. There are many people who have claimed to be in my books, but unfortunately they were usually people that I didn't know.

When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you want to do it.

You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.

If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

I think I think in the moment. So when I'm in character, I'm in character, and I'm obviously thinking about what's going on around me, but it's easier to do stuff when you're in character.

When I'm trying to imagine something, I have a few elements, a few ideas, maybe a certain actor or actress I want to create a certain type of character for, or maybe a certain place.

We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.

It's fun being one of the boys. It's fun to play a character that's rough and gets down and dirty and not to be this precious girl who just sits in the corner and just sort of stands by the action.

I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.

It's also very important to make sure that the main character and the player are completely in synch.

Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting two characters in a room and seeing what happens. So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom.

It can be annoying not to know who you are, where you came from, or what you're doing. To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing.

If Kona were to get a new logo, it would have to be a original character, not some well know one.

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors

Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.

With animation because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.