Character Quotes

The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.

I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.

One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.

The darker the character, the more interesting.

You don't become the character

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

As far as movies, I love 'The Notebook.' I always say that I wish I could play Rachel McAdams' character. She's amazing. That's the movie every girl wants to be in.

The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons.

Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.

If you judge the character, you cant play it.

Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.

If character is destiny, the good are damned.

We sometimes become so obsessed with punishing villainous characters, that we forget the collateral damage is actually experienced by marginalized groups, and we shouldn't punish them for that.

I wouldn't want to play a character that knew everything and knew where to go. It is much more interesting playing a character that is vulnerable trying to be strong. It makes for better TV.

You won't ever see me being totally sexy on 'Rookie Blue.' It's not right for the character, anyway.

In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you are lacking in story and character, you might still pull it off.

The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

For every inch that is not fool, is rogue.

I try not to divide plot and character. I get to know a character by what they want and fear and how those internal forces play out in their lives.

I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.

The great hope of society is in individual character

If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way people can or can't relate to each other.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

When I'm writing, I don't put faces on the characters. When I finish the first draft of the script, I start visualizing, and sometimes then I think about one actor.

My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind.

Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.

It's so difficult, particularly with an antisocial character. It's much easier if he's already a blank page, but once you've written on him, it's hard to keep him that stripped down.

History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance.

I'm much more character based. I try to just be really committed to what I'm doing.

The less people know about me in reality, the more they can accept of me as a character.

I did a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, and his skill level was eons ahead of mine. It was really more like an abattoir - he just slaughtered my character over and over again.

When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.

If I love the character and if I love the story, and the character requires me to be shirtless, or if it requires me to lose 30 pounds, I'm ready to do it.

It was fun to talk too much [as Jebediah Woodley], to keep running your mouth whether the other characters want to hear it or not. That's part of what made this guy fun.

There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission.

What I do is I come in the morning and get involved in the character, but I'm always very pleased to leave it at night and have my life.

The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.

I don't take characters home with me.

I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.

We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.

I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.

You have to like the characters you play.

I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is character building and I was like: My character is just fine.

And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea.

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

At the heart of Christian ethic is humility; at the heart of its parodies, pride. Different roads with different destinations, and the destinations color the character of those who travel by them.