Character Quotes
After 30 years in the theater, I'm used to having a great amount of control over what I do. But with '24', you place your character's life in the writers' hands, and you have no idea what's going to happen until you're sent the next pages.
Cherry Jones
A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.
Arthur Powell Davies
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
I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.
Jesse Eisenberg
You can really get into it - especially in the movies, where you really have the time to get into your character and play her well.
Amanda Peterson
I love to study people and pick apart what makes a person or character who they are. I never want to get complacent in that.
Jay Ellis
I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going to happen on every page before you even start writing dialogue - the entire plot and character arcs are mapped out.
Jonathan Levine
My priority will always be my performance more than anything associated with a film. I always look forward to give my best to the character I play on screen.
Anushka Shetty
I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.
Lasse Hallstrom
I do like a healthy dose of adrenalin, but my character is more rounded. I am not timid; I like excitement.
John Caudwell
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
I write in a very peculiar way. I think about a book for 25 or 30 years in a kind of inchoate way, and at one point or another, I realize the book is ready to be written. I usually have a character, a first line, and general idea of what the book is going to be about.
Charles McCarry
The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.
Ambrose Bierce
The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny.
Rachel Kushner
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
For my part, if the audience wanted to see Dracula again, I would be happy to reprise the role. It is an immortal character that can appear anywhere because it lies beyond time. Possibilities are endless.
Luke Evans
