Character Quotes

The character of a people may be ruined by charity.

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.

I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.

I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.

If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye.

There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.

The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's still my interpretation. I'm not going to, you know, be a clone - well, I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson!

I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.

There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character.

The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.

The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a man of strong character, deep conviction, unforgettable charm, and wonderful wit.

That's one of those things that will really hurt me personally, if I label a character or think about what it might do if it were to do well. I just try to do a good job with it.

Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.

I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie you're watching, they have these toned arms and muscles.

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

If I'm really considering doing film from now on then that is the smart thing to do, or you can go either way. You can just do the same character over and over again and make a different comedy like over and over again.

I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before.

In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.

I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this 'Obama' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.

I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.

To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.