Character Quotes
-
My career choices aren't based on the popularity of my character; I have never intended to capitalise on my fan base.
-
My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.
-
Societies in which we are able to unify ourselves around values and ideals and character and how we treat each other and cooperation and innovation, ultimately are gonna be more successful than societies that don't.
-
When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them?
-
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.
-
We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.
-
There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for that character.
-
You just have to play the character.
-
For me, it's nice to have a character who can never find love and have that be the running theme, but I think when you open the door to a story line about relationships, you open the door to another realm of comedy.
-
There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.
-
The thing that really makes me happy is the real work and rehearsing and creating the character and the process of making the movie. Hollywood's not real.
-
New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.
-
Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe.
-
My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
-
I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.
-
Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.
-
Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be an obstacle.
-
I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
-
What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 become 10 or 12. And if that happens, it will fundamentally shift the character of the Senate. It will shift the balance.
-
The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.
-
Here forms, here colours, here the character of every part of the universe are concentrated to a point; and that point is so marvellous a thing … Oh! marvellous, O stupendous Necessity - by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. These are miracles...
-
You'd be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV.
-
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.
-
You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.
