Character Quotes
I love my snaggle fangs. They give me character and character is sexy. People comment, but the only person who ever told me to fix them was my mom ... I just went my own way, like daughters do.
It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.
It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.
As an actor you always wanna protect your character. You wanna make them loveable, likeable. You wanna make them strong, you want them to be the hero, you want them to always be right.
When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.
There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed. ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises.
As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.
By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.
People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy
The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film.
The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
I've always chosen the roles that aren't the direct lead because I like being a very poignant character in the story, rather than being seen in every single seen.
People thought the storyline and characters for 'X-Files' made it a 'dark' show, but I never saw it that way. I always thought Mulder and Scully were the light in dark places.
I know I have a first-rate mind, but that's no source of pride to me. Intelligent people are a dime a dozen. But I am proud of having character.
If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny about it.
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.
I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up - that nurture side.
Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned.
Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.
Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.
A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.
Children are very strong and independent characters and can come up with more interesting things than Marlon Brando, and it's sometimes very difficult to direct or order them to do something.
I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was.
If you want to have a character who falls into crisis, all you have to do is turn the Internet off, and then we all understand how that feels, when you suddenly just have time and yourself.
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.
A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstoppable progress toward the story's end.
Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse--either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other.
The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history.
It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.
I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.
I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.
Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.
I'm not trying to say that I'm sick of Supernatural in any way, nor am I sick of my character, because he changes all the time; it's just nice to do something different.
A small pot boils quick. You can tell much about the depth of one's character by how quickly he 'boils'.
Flawed characters... a ticking clock... morally questionable acts on all sides... moody, evocative art... oh yeah, this the stuff crime noir fans love!
It's weird. I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin.
Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.
The easier you make it look, the more difficult it is. Creating characters out of nothing, and making them interesting - and that's another advice I would give to writers.
A good actor makes clear the meaning of the words. A better actor gives also the emotion of the part. The best actor adds emotion of which the character is unconscious.