Character Quotes

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

  

  Mary Tyler Moore
  • Character

• It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Integrity
  • Policy
  • Washington

• I think having a character piece is great. It will challenge you and be different.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • Great
  • Different
  • Challenge

• Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.

  

  Tony Goldwyn
  • Moral
  • Ambiguity
  • Inherent

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

  

  Daryl Hannah
  • Character

• I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Character
  • Bad
  • Want

• I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Character
  • Interesting

• If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Character
  • Feel
  • Yourself

• I'm just a character actor.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Character

• The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Real

• Weight loss can change your whole character. That always amazed me: Shedding pounds does change your personality. It changes your philosophy of life because you recognize that you are capable of using your mind to change your body.

  

  Jean Nidetch
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Personality

• It takes a while for audiences on film to see you as something different if they've seen you for so long as a specific character. It's up to the actor to be like, 'Look man, let's try something else,' even if it's an ultra-low-budget independent. People who rep you will keep going with whatever they can send you on.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Reality
  • Desire
  • Emotional

• In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and it's up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.

  

  Aden Young
  • Up
  • Moral
  • Breathe

• In Iceland, the weather is the biggest character you deal with every day. There's nothing more relevant in your life than what kind of weather it is.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Life
  • Character
  • Day

• For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors.

  

  Lloyd Bridges
  • Up
  • Time
  • Character

• But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do.

  

  Billy West
  • Character
  • Remember

• I get less and less sketching done at shows, as more and more people want to come up and talk or get stuff signed. Most requested character? Probably Catwoman.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • People
  • Up
  • Done

• I'll no longer say that I have supernatural powers. I am an entertainer. I want to do a good show. My entire character has changed.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Good
  • Character
  • Supernatural

• With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Men
  • Done
  • Education

• 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

• He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an image chosen for them once and for all. He was being judged by what he had been. Just as dogs don't change character, men are dogs to one another.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Men
  • Character
  • Friends

• Washing the Dead is an illuminating and intricately layered novel about the complicated legacies that pass from mother to daughter, and about the ways that understanding our own history helps make us who we are. Michelle Brafman is an insightful writer who never falters or flinches in her quest to uncover the hearts of her characters.

  

  Carolyn Parkhurst
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Understanding

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