Character Quotes

• I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • World
  • Different
  • Long

• The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Actor
  • Celebrity
  • Annoying

• Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Character
  • Hand
  • Intelligence

• To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great men and women and point the way by which one may find happiness in the living of today and eternal joy in the world to come. These are the qualities which are the anchors to our lives, in spite of the trials, the tragedies, the pestilences, and the cruelties of war which bring in their wake appalling destruction, hunger, and bloodshed

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• Hair and make-up people don't get enough credit for what they do. It's not just making people look good. It's really creating the character.

  

  Kristen Connolly
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• While conflicts have expanded and deepened and transformed, actors have transformed, and humanitarian assistance is transforming. Protection work is transforming and taking on another character.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • Work
  • Character

• I always prefer to write songs about emotional situations and heartbreak because I like getting into the character.

  

  Pixie Lott
  • Character
  • Emotional
  • Heartbreak

• It seems everyone wants to know if I have an eating disorder, and playing an anorexic character on 'Make it or Break It' probably didn't help much. To set the record straight, I certainly do not have an eating disorder. I think as anyone can gather, I love food, and it is not just a front to cover up the fact that I don't eat any.

  

  Alice Greczyn
  • Up
  • Help
  • Food

• I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Character
  • Defending

• I don’t really feel like the gender of character is what causes someone to identify with them. It’s the situation they’re in, it’s the way they deal with danger, the way that they deal with fears. And so I feel like it’s a slightly larger question in terms of what makes us identify with someone.

  

  Brian Selznick
  • Character
  • Question

• The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

  

  Ed Asner
  • May
  • Truth
  • Comedy

• Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul. I have tried to restrain its inroads on me, but there are odd corners of my character that have been harmed.

  

  Charlton Heston
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Celebrity

• Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Character

• There was a point where I was making four movies a year. I was always on a set. I had no stories to tell. I was feeling empty. My life was just luggage and hotels and from set to set, from character to character. And one day, I said, 'And where is mine?' You know? And the moment I started to feel that fear, I stopped and I slowed down.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Fear

• I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Life
  • Character
  • Myself

• You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

  

  Luc de Clapiers
  • People
  • Character

• All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Action
  • Support

• My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Running
  • Excitement

• The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Strong
  • Emotions
  • Japanese

• Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.

  

  David Bailey
  • Character
  • Mood

• I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.

  

  Martin Short
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Challenge

• Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Character
  • Conspiracy

• The problem with being a writer is that some readers tend to think that anything that comes out of a character's mouth is you talking.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Character

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