Character Quotes

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.

For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chance to really act emotionally, because the situation is an extreme one.

I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles.

I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.

I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

When I came up with the character of Wicket for 'Return Of The Jedi', which was my first film, I was a kid of 11 years old, and I basically was playing a very young Ewok.

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Maybe I'll just become a cartoon character because there's nothing left for me to do in an R-rated comedy.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them.

I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.

Well, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different.

I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does.

One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.