Character Quotes

I mean it allowed me to do that which was fantastic because we really get to see the character mature and deal with some things that are, that I think as an audience member, really pull us in.

To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.

If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story.

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

I can understand in some sense, having played the character, how unimaginably frustrating it is for people to tell you that you can't love who you love, because you ain't going to change it, and so they have to get out of your way.

There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for that character.

I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

Thing is, I'm a funny actor, but I'm not good at being funny. I'm going to ramble for a second: I'm an actor who can make things funny in the moment, like in stakes or in circumstances or out of character.

I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.

My life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That's my character. That's my work. Inga is a person.

We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

I do not like assassins, or men of low character.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.

Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.

Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.