Character Quotes

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.

You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.

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.

It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.

And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.

No, I feel like my personality probably influenced the character, more than the character influenced me.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.