Character Quotes

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

The head writer loves that my character is a boor.

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors around you. There was as much character work on this as there would be on a little independent film. So, I felt very fortunate in that sense.

I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character.

It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.

I love working with new directors. There's so much drive and effort. It still comes down to the character for me, but if it's a character I really want to play, I would never not do the project because of a new director.

In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.

I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway.

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.

I do think I'm a character actor.

I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.

The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early.