Character Quotes

• How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its character from the individual creations of its members.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Work
  • Art
  • Character

• Things have character. So I'm interested in how the character of the thing might function as a protagonist in what isn't a narrative.

  

  Jessica Stockholder
  • Character

• I've been too funny in my life to have to play a character who's... moderately funny.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Life
  • Character
  • Funny

• Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through one character in the book.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Art
  • Book
  • Political

• I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trying

• If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Japanese

• Soldiers are members of a profession of arms which has existed virtually unchanged for thousands of years- far longer than most other human institutions have existed. The Army has done so because of its unique character- a uniqueness based primarily upon intangibles that cannot be costed.

  

  William A. Connelly
  • Unique
  • Humans
  • Soldier

• I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Interesting

• I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.

  

  Jamie Campbell Bower
  • People
  • Character
  • Experience

• 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

• I love characters songs and I love to fit into a story. I love singing through a character's journey.

  

  Katie Finneran
  • Character
  • Singing
  • Journey

• I never thought I would sing or dance - ever, ever, ever. My idea was to be Laurence Olivier or Peter Lorre or some great classical actor. I thought I'd be a character actor.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Great
  • Character
  • Dance

• Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Character
  • Change

• When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Character

• At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character-an assault that assumes that we are not good enough to be free, and that aims to make sure that we are no longer strong enough, courageous enough, disciplined enough to be a free people.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • People
  • Good
  • Free

• Viewers can hate a character and at the same time can't take their eyes off of him.

  

  John Slattery
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Eyes

• Major Clark is one of the most outstanding officers of his grade in the U.S. Army... an officer of impeccable character with a rare blend of personal qualities and professional attributes which uniquely qualify him as a soldier-scholar.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • Professional
  • Army
  • Soldier

• When preparing a role, I work first on the body language and physical aspects of the performance; the psychological dimension comes naturally once I'm in character.

  

  Pierre Niney
  • Work
  • Character

• The outlaw uses the knife to separate the persona from the self. The outlaw uses the warrior’s sword to cut through his own character armor to destroy the defense mechanisms that have kept him imprisoned within the citadel of personality and role.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Character
  • Personality
  • Warrior

• To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing. At the same time, it's fun to just stay on your toes and let the next bit of dialogue come in, and turn the page as you read the next script and see what they have in store for you next.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Time
  • Character
  • Fun

• A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.

  

  Edmund Randolph
  • Man
  • United States
  • Abilities

• I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.

  

  Lizzy Caplan
  • Up
  • Different
  • Trying

• I love playing a character that eats on television. It's so fun.

  

  Kether Donohue
  • Character
  • Fun

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

  

  Adam Driver
  • Character
  • Brain
  • Feel

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