Character Quotes

Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral integrity and inner character.

I never went after character payments. I'm pretty much terrible at naming characters, so I usually name them after people I know.

But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do.

Tom Kenny is a master of changing a pubic hair this way or that way, and sounding like a totally different character.

I believe in books. I believe more in cross-media - how characters are adapting across mediums.

All characters have a voice but not all voices have character. And it's all about character and personality.

I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.

I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.

Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made.

The music is not used repetitiously to create film atmosphere. It is, in fact, the leading character.

I try to have all my characters have a sense of humor. To me the most interesting thing is a desperate character. I think desperation is funny.

These days with the web, you can burn out a character really quick.

I believe locations should try to be and evoke the characters in a movie.

There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.

But people do the same thing with the Bible. They memorize all the fictional characters, the parameters and the rules of the game and think it's important, but I can't get excited about that myself.

Characters for me are born on page one and they die on page 100.

Everyone's different. I mean, some people write journals for their characters and stuff, but that was never really my area.

I think I was always interested in darker characters just because there was a lot more to do.

The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!

There are so many quirky characters, its easy to fall in love with any number of the characters on The Carrie Diaries.

I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.

Youll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isnt rolling.

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.

A player's character is a crucial factor I look into before committing to signing them. They also need to show a willingness to learn, regardless of age and experience; that's very important to me.

I mean I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.

I don't know if the character's come back and it was someone else playing it, or maybe they never did it again. But I loved it. It was a great part [The Joker] to play.

The character of Brent Spiner. We certainly collaborate on the concept of that, but he basically writes the script, then it's sort of a combination of his voice and my voice.

Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.

In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.

Oh, well, I can't tell you; it would be telling you the end. It's a one-character lip-syncing because in the early days, that's what my dad was doing.

You can't just have a fight scene. In my opinion, it has to be a character moment or story moment.

I think that there's something really special about doing a series. You get inside the skin of that character 'cause it's such a long time.

It's almost jarring when you go to play a different character, after playing someone for so long. I love it!

I always just get excited about the character. When something rings true for me, then I'm ready to do it.

The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.

I just want to challenge myself and play some different characters.

I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character.

Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven.

I loved playing Sasha. You don't have this on every job, or every show or movie, but every day was really an adventure, character wise, for what I got to do at that age.

When I get excited about a character, I'll start doing things as the character and thinking about what the character would do.

I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.

I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.

One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.

It doesn't happen all the time, but in the moments where you really lose yourself and you fall into this character, it's like time travel.

I like down-to-Earth characters, but I also like being able to get outside my box of knowledge.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

I think you find pieces of yourself in every character you portray.