Character Quotes

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

Every time you say yes to a film there's a certain percentage of your yes that has to do with the director, a certain percentage to do with the story, a certain percentage with the character, the location, etc.

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.

The roles for women have been either you're the mother or you're the whore or the lieutenant. They've been sort of limited, either way you're all good or you're all bad. What I'm loving about 'Red Widow' is the ability to really do move toward the Tony Soprano or Walter White or 'Dexter,' these character who are just complex, flawed.

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

I have women coming up to me and saying: 'I love your character! She's so empowered. She takes control; she gets what she wants.' That's another side of her. And I respect that in Joan. She says and does things that I would never allow myself to do.

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically.

I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details.

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

I played a lot of character parts in school.

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

It's very hard to play a hyperactive character all the time, I try my best, but I end up collapsing at the end of the day.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

Having removed the dictator, the allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their Constitution, we will indeed see the character of a new Iraqi nation revealed through the principles it chooses to uphold.

I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10.

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting.

I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.

Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.

It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

I would defy people to find a more beautifully developed character than Seven of Nine.