Character Quotes

• I always say that, like a scientist or anyone, you always want to be the problem-solver. You feel like, if you solve the greatest mystery or the greatest problem, then that makes you brilliant. It's the same thing with an actress. You want to be able to really tackle a character and make it a fully-dimensional human being who is complicated, funny and all the things that a person could be.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Problem
  • Mystery
  • Brilliant

• The fundamentals for me are character and conflict. I put character first because readers will be indifferent to conflict if they are indifferent to the character who is experiencing it.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Character

• When you did impressions on 'MADtv,' the producers gave you a Walkman that played huge sections of whatever movie was being parodied, with your character's catchphrases recorded on a loop. You'd wear this thing around during rehearsals and for a week listen to the voice you had to impersonate over and over again. It drove all of us crazy.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Movie
  • Crazy
  • Impressions

• You can't make the audience fall in love with a character you don't like.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Character
  • Like
  • Audience

• Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Character
  • Brain
  • Feel

• I always work with the tempo of the energy of the character, whether he's fast or slow, or heavy or light.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Light

• Not often do you approach a character where people know more about him than you do.

  

  Chris Hemsworth
  • People
  • Character

• When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Character
  • You
  • Film

• What's cool about Spider-Man is that it's everybody - anyone, you put on the suit, anyone believes that you're Spider-Man. That's what's charming about the character. He's anyone. He's a huge nerd that ends up being this huge superhero.

  

  Jake Epstein
  • Up
  • Cool
  • Superhero

• My character in 'Fanaah' has a cool and crazy look at the same time. I'm very particular about my accessories and clothes and love discussing and working on the look with the team. We all work on it together and gather loads of references.

  

  Anita Hassanandani Reddy
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• And from my character's point-of-view in Ravenous, he had been collected by Robert Carlyle's character, he had become infected by this ravenous, cannibalistic power, and he was making the best of it.

  

  Jeffrey Jones
  • Character
  • Power

• Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.

  

  Charles Lenox Remond
  • Aspiration
  • Obscure
  • Praiseworthy

• Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Trying
  • Nature
  • Temperament

• It's almost like a theater, where I can play a character in every song, 'cause Kamelot songs are very... There's always a narrative going on. There's a story within albums and in songs, so I get to play a character and sing it in a different way than people might recognize coming from me.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • Song
  • Play
  • Theatrer

• I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore
  • Character

• It's just a really cool deal to be a character in 'WWE 2K17.' Whether it's competing on Nitro or Halloween Havoc, to have me as an available character... it's a tribute.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Character
  • Cool
  • Halloween

• The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Great
  • Taken

• I can't stand confrontation, which maybe is a character flaw. But having said that, I do feel like when I do get upset - which is rare, as my husband and family would say - I have a hard time letting go.

  

  Anna Faris
  • Time
  • Family
  • Husband

• The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and social virtues taught by symbols, allegories, and lectures based upon fundamental truths, the observance of which tends to promote stability of character, conservatism, morality and good citizenship.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Moral
  • Philosophy
  • Morality

• God is committed to developing a people who will reflect his character in this world, and his character always expresses concern and compassion for the afflicted.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • People
  • World
  • God

• Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.

  

  Will Smith
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Hilarious

• When you're the guy inside of a character and you've lived with it for almost two years, you're always a bit defensive about the character, and you want to root for the character you're playing.

  

  Dan Amboyer
  • Character
  • Guy

• What I try to do with the accent of any character I play is not necessarily to do something that's generic - an Indian accent and that's how it sounds, for example. I think the accent needs to sound authentic on this person.

  

  Adhir Kalyan
  • Character

• As an actor you always wanna protect your character. You wanna make them loveable, likeable. You wanna make them strong, you want them to be the hero, you want them to always be right.

  

  Katrina Law
  • Strong
  • Hero
  • Actor

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