Character Quotes

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'.

People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy.

The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history to testify that the primal urge has a most distinguished presidential pedigree.

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.

At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it helped. When I was too young to play real character parts, they mistook me for older because of the bald noggin. I got juicy roles right from the start.

As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin' to assassinate my character, that's impossible. You talkin' about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.

I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.

I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards.

Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.