Character Quotes
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I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'
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Joss Whedon, he is really hands-on, and he wants every character to have a life on and off screen.
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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
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What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.
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'Through sickness and through health' sounds so simple on your wedding day, but in reality, they become significant words that are a huge responsibility and show true character to navigate.
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Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.
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I haven't done many films. But with every movie, I try to showcase a different side of me through a character.
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I think there were a few things that really interested me. One was that I didn't know a lot about hooligan culture. I'd heard of football violence but I didn't quite understand how intense it really is, how organized it is, and more importantly, how these people aren't necessarily criminals or thugs in their daily life. They almost have this sort of double life. They're people with families and some of them have relatively good jobs. That fascinated me. And also the opportunity of being able to take a character from that kind of relatively innocent place to essentially making him a hooligan was very attractive to me. To explore a darker side of humanity that I'd not really explored in film before just as an actor was an interesting challenge.
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I would love to do a really stupid character on 'The Office'. I'm so an 'Office' fan.
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Try to imagine a character like Batman whose whole life has been about fighting crime, whose whole existence and identity is his war against criminals, and he wakes up one morning to discover there are no criminals. What happens to him?
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I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation.
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For each character, I try to understand what is driving them.
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Bill Polian and I agreed when we first came together with the Buffalo Bills that we'd bring players only of high character to the team.
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I think wardrobe is a really important part of making a movie and developing the character.
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I love connecting with a character out of the blue, not knowing why.
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I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television shows that I've become obsessed with. I just think that it's opened up so much, to be such an interesting and creative medium, and so many wonderful directors and actors are moving to television because it is a great medium for telling stories and for creating a character over a long period of time.
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One of the things that would steer me away from a franchise is that I'm playing the same character all the time and I wouldn't want to be known for that.
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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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It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.
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The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The minute it begins to out-whoop them it forfeits its character and becomes ridiculous.
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William Hartnell was one of the great unsung character actors of his time
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I think the character of Superman may be the greatest fictional creation of modern times, and working on the book is for me a sacred trust. I'm just doing my best not to disappoint!
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I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about 'the character,' and what you do. It's a very different thing, because stage is much bigger, but on television, for things to come across to the public, I think you have to play a bit of your personality.
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A Nation's character is typified by its dancers.
