Character Quotes

Doctor Strange is an origin story so there's a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.

Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the '60s and '70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.

Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A

I don't wear a mask, I don't have a suit. It's not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the character [Doctor Strange ] goes through is immense!

I'm quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].

I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.

[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It's an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It's great. Yeah, I'm excited.

I do that with all of my characters. They have one of the flaws I have, and I zero in on that flaw.

I wasn't terribly aware of Catwoman. She was a DC comics character and as a kid, I wasn't terribly fond of the DC comics characters. I was a Marvel boy.

Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.

When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those who thus hold it, with the heart and the character as any other fashion.

I tried to find a character and how I would be an American actress in the 30s. But if this was a talking movie [The Artist], I'm sure she would be exactly the same for me.

I guess I'm the perfect young lead actress. I'm not Chloe Sevigny - I'm not really a character actress. Some actors have "character" faces.

Of course, when you work on a character, you try to understand her. You feel that everything she does has a reason.

I really enjoyed being Peppy Miller. She was an amazing character and her energy followed me everywhere. When I talk about her I want to be her again.

Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.

Only the Strong is a lushly atmospheric and passionately written piece of work, bursting with colorful characters that shine on every page.

[Maurizio Arrivabene is quite a character] but only for himself and not for Formula One.

I think I'm really obsessed with characters that lose their face, in a way. I think it's very moving.

The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.

There's always that key to every character that lets you go to those places you need to go to. No matter how much you might hate the character, it makes you understand it.

But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don't have to be very smart.

I am drawn to roles that are strong, intelligent, and a little edgy. With Complications, I navigate my character Samantha Ellison through some really emotionally challenging times.

Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It's no fun being safe.

I get no pleasure from politics; its not in my character.

My first character was Mr. Toad.

If you are supposed to be villainous and have some sort of agenda, I like the idea of delivering that kind of character in a perfectly well-mannered way.

A good filmmaker is someone who can look at a piece and go, "This camera's really going to be a character. I want people to feel like they're being punched."

A nation has character only when it is free.

The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.

Dad: Honey, have you seen my glasses? I can"t find them. Mom: I haven't seen them. Calvin: (with glasses, to Dad) Calvin, go do something you hate! Being miserable builds character!

If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.

What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.

I'm pulling out different aspects of my personality in writing each character and, if I'm doing my job well, I'm being true to the situation and true to the character.

The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.

Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.

Every character I play is me, always has been.

To tell you the truth, I don't ever talk about characters as separate from myself.

If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.

As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.

I know it's boring to say this but I always start with the script. I mean if it's well written and it's a character that I haven't necessarily played before.

For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they're trying to tell.

I don't have any complex plans for playing a character. I think all I try to do is not make too many bad guy faces and not ever try to seem too good. I just try to put it in the middle somewhere.

I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote poems.

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps.

I reached a point in my life where I felt like I was living through some old character.

All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.