Character Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The great hope of society is in individual character

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.

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.

For every inch that is not fool, is rogue.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

If character is destiny, the good are damned.

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 you judge the character, you cant play it.

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.

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

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.

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

You don't become the character

The darker the character, the more interesting.

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

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.

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

Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.

Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.

We may divide characters into flat and round.

I've always been attracted to characters that were interesting to me, and different.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.

Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human.

My most serious character flaw is that I don't deny myself much.

When I can't immediately define the character, and there's an element of mystery to it and still a lot to be explored, that's when I say yes.

I hadn't mentioned, but Ching Shih is a pretty villainous character. She is a real person, but she was a pirate commander, so she probably murdered a lot of people.

Pigmentation was a quick and convenient way of judging a person. One of us, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once proposed we instead judge people by the content of their character. He was shot.

We wonder why we don't have faith; the answer is, faith is confidence in the character of God and if we don't know what kind of God God is, we can't have faith.

As actors we're supposed to be our character's advocate.

The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

A real sacrifice involves a radical change in the character of a game which cannot be effected without foresight, fantasy, and the willingness to risk.

I'll no longer say that I have supernatural powers. I am an entertainer. I want to do a good show. My entire character has changed.

The psych up comes from knowing what I can both give and get from each role. I get a lot personally from each character I play that I am able to carry over into my everyday life.

All the things that live within you find their place, in character and story, once you tap into that other space that is the creative writing space.

With a film, you know the beginning, middle and end of your character's arc. But on a TV show, you have no idea where they're going to end up.