Character Quotes

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.

Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.

There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

Character is power.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary.

I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and as I opened it the lead character in it was called Morgan Brittany.

I'm always attracted to the vulnerable character more than I am the superhero.

As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.

I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

I consider myself a character actor.

I am more spontaneous than my character.

I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them.

I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.

I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.

I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

My father's a character.

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.