Character Quotes

I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.

When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.

Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.

But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did.

Does my character hate Bree? Well, let's just put it this way. Bree hasn't seen the last of me. I gave that drunk gal a ride home a few episodes ago and she turned on me!

I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don't become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.

My thing about looking good is that it should be the character. If I'm playing a character who's concerned about his body - an athlete, say - I'll get in shape. If I'm playing a character who doesn't or wouldn't, I don't. I almost never get in shape for a movie, even though I know it would be a good career move.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.

The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.

It has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds.

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.

The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.

They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.

The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.

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.