Character Quotes

People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.

Every year, I have to spend another hour working out. Pretty soon I'll be spending eight hours working out just to fit in the costume. I have the feeling that the minute I stop doing the character, boom, Roseanne Barr.

I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.

The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.

When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.

For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.

The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were these demonic evil children, cause when you're a kid, seven or eight years old, and you're looking at the world around you - everything seems black or white, good or bad.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.

What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.

But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.

For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chance to really act emotionally, because the situation is an extreme one.

I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles.

I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.

I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.