Character Quotes
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There are plenty of actors who've caught the singing bug and vice versa, but with musical performers, you're constantly a persona - which is something I love about acting: you play a character, you leave and you get to be yourself again.
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Oh, my gosh! Can you imagine learning boxing from Sylvester Stallone's character? I would die!
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Now to the great artist, everything in nature has character.
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In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.
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My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it's because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same.
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When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.
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Well, everybody knew their character. I was the only one who didn't have a partner. I basically showed up when people got in trouble. Where I came from, I don't know. Nobody knows. But I would show up to help.
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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
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The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
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My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.
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Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.
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When any character gets killed, there's always a sadness about that, because they're part of the family in a way.
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I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.
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I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.
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Once the makeup is on, it is easy to enter the character's frame of mind.
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He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an image chosen for them once and for all. He was being judged by what he had been. Just as dogs don't change character, men are dogs to one another.
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When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way - they make you look at the world in a different way.
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To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.
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It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.
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In The Greens Are Gone, I play a character that's bipolar, so that was a big step and quite a challenge.
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My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.
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I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.
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But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three.
