Character Quotes

My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She'd swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Character is simply habit long continued.

The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.

I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape.

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.

I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.

You know a lot of what worked on this was taken from Harry Potter 2, the little Doby character, we had a lot of our skin stuff worked out and that helped a lot. We have a lot of exchange happening.

People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for anything!

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

I enjoy catching our show whenever I can. It does get very weird to watch myself, it's always been that way, but at the same time, it's part of my job to see what kind of job I'm doing and to get a perspective on where I'm taking the character.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character.

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.

The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered.

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.

I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.

With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.

I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.

Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do.

The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.