Character Quotes

Producing is figuring out how to make each character have a distinct voice, how to make the story twist and turn - that's the biggest challenge.

Lauren Shuler Donner
- Character
- Challenge
It's really nice when you can sit down with somebody and just talk to them, and talk about your ideas and what you think the character is, and they respond to it. It's a really nice way to do it, but it doesn't happen very often.

Aaron Ashmore
- Character
- Nice

I look at something like 'Short Term 12,' and that character has a lot of pain, and I wouldn't have known how to portray that if I hadn't experienced pain myself.

Brie Larson
- Character
- Pain
There's a potter that lived back in the 1800s, in Biloxi, Mississippi, and his name was George Ohr. He was of Russian descent, but they called him the "Mad Potter of Biloxi." I'd love to do a great character study and comedy about that guy's life. That would be my dream role. I know it's an oddball thing, but it's true. He lived at the turn of the century, in the 1800s.

Lance Henriksen
- Life
- Great
- True
I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

Manuel Puig
- Work
- Character
- Problem
I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.

Bob Brown
- Great
- Character
- Violence
It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.

W. Somerset Maugham
- Character
- Harmony
- Yield
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
- Character
- Hand