Character Quotes

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.

The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

Character is the total of thousands of small daily strivings to live up to the best that is in us.

My first name was inspired by the character of Aslan, the lion in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.

I don't like watching myself. That's kind of weird but you know it's not me really, it's this character, which I think might make it a little easier.

Creating a character is about what they look like. The look speaks volume to the audience.

My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.

I just loved playing the mean girl. When you're not like a character, it's kind of fun to play.

Steve Jobs was a pretty complicated character and somewhat a psychologically complicated guy.

A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!

I love sport, so I'd love to do more stories if I can that deal with sport maybe. Other characters, actually the real guy is so interesting why would you want to get anyone to play them?

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.

Once you do a character in Hollywood and people haven't seen you before, they put you in a box and they think that's all that you can do and it's hard to get people to take a risk on you.

What I like about theatre is the responsibility you have with your character.

Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there. [Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.]

O natal star, thou producest twins of widely different character. [Lat., Geminos, horoscope, varo Producis genio.]

I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

You have to find something you relate to in every character.

I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.

Voice isn't fixed or unmalleable, it adapts to the characters you are creating and the story being told. I suppose in some way that's true in life - a little flexibility goes a long way.

I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable human being on a page.

I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had.

I indulged the wild child inside of me - the one that's not aware of danger or fear - for the purity of existence for that character in that film. Of course, behind me they're saying, 'She's crazy!'

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.

When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.

Weather creates character.

I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.

Being around Lily Tomlin has been great, how she treats people, how she handles herself, how she goes about interpreting her character or deciding how the comedy should work.

Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.

In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.

I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.

Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see

You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.

Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be an obstacle.

Maybe that's the way I'm private - I respect the privacy of "my" characters? Anyway, we're getting close to the whole "relatability" and "likability" thing.

It's very hard to play a hyperactive character all the time, I try my best, but I end up collapsing at the end of the day.

I'm a husband and a dad. Two thirds of my day is spent being that character. It's a huge part of my identity and why I pursue things I do.

You have to stay in character in between takes.

I wanted to be funny for people who didn't care about fashion at all, to just to kind of exist as a silly character.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play.

I've never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you're painting on a very big canvas.

I'm sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It's an amazing discipline.

Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.