Character Quotes
For me, the challenge of a period film is that, unlike a contemporary film where the character can be very free-form when it comes to the acting, there's a burden to acting in a period film because you have to stay within the character's historical background and the gestures of certain periods.
Donnie Yen
Irrespective of my looks and age, they'll like me if I portray my character well.
Divyanka Tripathi
I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.
Columbus Short
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.
Bayard Taylor
In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.
Janet Montgomery
I think most character people that you talk to, it's like, whatever they offer us, we are thrilled to do. I won't do anything that's immoral or illicit. I did turn down eating a dead body once. I turned down a few really creepy horror movies. For the most part, I can usually find a way into whatever character.
Beth Grant
You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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
I'd love to do comedy. I'd probably have to get my laughing fits in check, because generally if I've done comedy, I'm usually the straight character that plays against the very obviously funny character, so that's really hard when the person is really hilarious.
Nathalie Emmanuel
I take the work seriously. Which is why I always swing for the fences whenever I voice a character. But that said, I don't take myself all that seriously.
Jim Cummings
I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
Tahereh Mafi
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
I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters.
Daniel Woodrell
Certain songs I feel different people should be on different tracks, you know it's emotional. I put myself into characters for certain records.
Keith Matthew Thornton
Adoration in prayer reminds us of God's identity and inclination. As we list his attributes, lifting up his character and personality, we reinforce our understanding of who he is.
Bill Hybels
I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels in Argentina. I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more romantic than the present day.
Fabian Perez
I find if my character is more glamorous, I become more conscious of what I look like.
Jodie Comer
The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.
Carl Jung
Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular because I have to imitate accurately the voice of someone who is not like me. The third-person singular gives me an authority over a character.
Orhan Pamuk
At first I was supposed to be the funny central figure, ... But with that format the show might have lasted about four weeks. The way it worked out is, the other people say the funny lines and my character looks on as an observer.
Andy Griffith
I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.
Katie Cassidy
In the first two years this is a man Clinton who tried his best to balance the budget, to reform health care, to fight for gay rights, to support personal freedoms. Couldn’t those be considered doing the right things, evidence of true character?
Bryant Gumbel
