Character Quotes

As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing.

But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience.

For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency. President Obama's strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it isn't the easy thing.

People buy a game because they like the game and they want to play the game. And there are certain characters in games that people like, obviously. I don't know if a certain character's voice or lack of a certain character's voice can cause somebody to buy or not buy a game.

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

They said that Seven was a former Borg who had been human and had been assimilated. She was regaining her humanity. I had no interest in this character.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough.

If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story.

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

I can understand in some sense, having played the character, how unimaginably frustrating it is for people to tell you that you can't love who you love, because you ain't going to change it, and so they have to get out of your way.

There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for that character.

I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

Thing is, I'm a funny actor, but I'm not good at being funny. I'm going to ramble for a second: I'm an actor who can make things funny in the moment, like in stakes or in circumstances or out of character.

I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.

My life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That's my character. That's my work. Inga is a person.

We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.