Character Quotes

I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.

On Flash, I thought of myself as a spice character; come in, do a little dance, and I go.

One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.

Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.

Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What if the electricity turned off?"

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

When I find myself having that much trouble with a song or a character or a story, I tend to move on.

Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.

My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.

Shooting in New York is the shiznit, if I may be so bold. It was great. New York is a character. People who live here know that.

I pulled the Johnny character from the Jamaican Johnny Too Bad thing.

I saw the main character played by Mads Mikkelsen, and he's amazing. Hannibal had that going for it.

That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.

A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough.

The cool thing about my character was that it's not that digital. I get to put hours of prosthetic makeup on and see a different creature altogether. I've seen how he looks and it's really cool.

I love doing comedy. One of my favorite things in the world is to do Parks and Recreation; a big fun character.

It's so fun to play a character that has so many layers that people won't even know, until the next season.

Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless as herding cats

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

Apology sends the clearest signal that we have the strength of character to reconcile ourselves with the truth.

Success is good for the character.

Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.

I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.

I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way.

You read about somebody, and doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.

Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.

What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence the Hindu Christ.

I am very proud to be a part of '3 Idiots,' and happy that the character has worked in a big way.

I always love to do something different and new and be challenged by different characters.

We will win with character, not with characters.

The character, as written on the page, is just a blueprint for a human being.

Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find you.

Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity

But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.

There's a lot of kids' shows that are really popular ratings-wise, but they don't sell a lot of stuff. A character on a backpack just doesn't have the same appeal as watching it on TV.

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

I don't think you make fans happy by just replicating frames. What they want to see is that you stayed true to the story, true to the characters and true to the design.