Character Quotes
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In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place. You feel like the soul of this character is now dwelling in you.
Mercedes Ruehl
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When you think of the former high school football star, you think 6-foot-2, white, meathead as the model for that kind of character. Since I'm not 6-foot-2 or white, I just thought about what I could bring to it. I thought about Smash Williams from 'Friday Night Lights,' like the cocky quarterback, and played around with that.
Donald Glover
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In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.
Barry Watson
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I often feel like a pretender when wearing makeup. The most beautiful features in a woman are her character and her experiences. Why hide that?
Masiela Lusha
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Before us lie two paths - honesty and dishonesty. The shortsighted embark on the dishonest path; the wise on the honest. For the wise know the truth; in helping others we help ourselves; and in hurting others we hurt ourselves. Character overshadows money, and trust rises above fame. Honesty is still the best policy.
Napoleon Hill
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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
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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
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I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.
Pat Conroy
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Television is fantastic because you get to follow a group of characters over time, and their stories can enrich and surprise you. And you get to work with a group of people over time as well, which can be very satisfying with the right group.
Liz Tuccillo
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Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When I write, I try to capture one of those pivotal moments. If I succeed, I have shifted the reader's view of the world, just a little. The character is not the only one to experience change. That is my job, shifting perceptions, one story at a time. The trouble is, I don't like writing. But I love having written.
Ellen Klages
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The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.
Chris Hemsworth
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A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
Bobby Bowden
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Every job I've done so far, every character has been completely different, and that's really important to me because I don't want to fall into a stereotypical box. Of course, every actor has their box, and you have to respect and play for it, but I do love challenging myself.
Aneurin Barnard
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In order to see the relation between philosophy as rigorous science and the alternative to it clearly, one must look at the political conflict between the two antagonists, i.e. at the essential character of that conflict.
Leo Strauss
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I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just love people and want to see people having a good time.
Wyclef Jean
Fugees
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What I have learned from working on those great shows is what is the DNA that makes them so deeply involving and interesting for an audience over a long period of time. So much has to do with character, complexity, and sophistication.
Jeremy Podeswa
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It's my only religion to work hard, and then I'm not under any pressure because I know I've done the work on the character.
Pierre Niney
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For me, the world is a stage, and we are all playing the character we have chosen to play on that stage. It is the job of the photographer to capture the drama of the performance.
Alix Smith
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No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
Seneca the Younger
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In talking about memory and our history, I think our humanity, especially in China, is cut. Cut, broken, separated. If we have a character from our history and memory, the character is broken, it’s shattered.
Ai Weiwei
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I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.
John Mahoney
