Character Quotes

Character is a perfectly educated will.

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. It's part of my job.

Beautifully drawn, solid, compelling characters against a background so real and scary I left the lights on all night. It was great!

Donald Trump's temperament and character is precisely what you would hate to see in your children, much less your president.

The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.

It is quite different, but I love doing a series because you get to live with a character for a much longer amount of time. And the other aspect of it is that you have a steady job.

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.

I never want to play the same character twice. I like to do different roles. I have fun with that.

There must be areas in which a particular character does not represent you.

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

The habits of feeling, action and judgment that comprise good character depend on personal self-discipline and powerful aspiration to become a good person, all of which must be drawn from within.

Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.

If Bruce Springsteen, Harlan Howard, or Tom Waits can tell a character's whole story in four minutes, maybe you don't need as many words as you think to make an impact.

I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.

In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book.

You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits.

Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live.

It is not a character fault or weakness or seeking attention. It is somebody who is ill.

If the show encourages an audience to ask the question, "Is this character's emotional response to this situation valid?," then that's a really good question to ask.

Noah Baumbach writing is really wonderful. I think the way he plays out each character with a unique voice is really impressive, and rhythmically his dialogue works.

She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived.

Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!

Any time you get to dig deeper into your character, you welcome it, especially on a TV show.

When you have a set of characters, you have to fall in love with them and care about them as each individual character.

So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit?

The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.

It's my opinion that if you're trying to tell a realistic story that centers around realistic characters, you can't help but touch on important issues. Those issues are what make us human.

There is something good about the character of Gomez. I wouldn't trade the association with him for anything or any role that I might have missed.

It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.

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.

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.

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 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.

You have to like the characters you play.

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.

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

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.

I don't take characters home with me.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance.

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.