Character Quotes

• The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

  

  Joshua Reynolds
  • Character
  • Man
  • Amusements

• I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.

  

  Kirsten Dunst
  • Life
  • Work
  • Character

• When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had most in mind, and James Joyce's 'Ulysses.' Entirely out of the blue, Kafka's characters receive an order to go somewhere, and when they try to comply, they never quite manage it. Ki-yong in 'Your Republic Is Calling You' is precisely that sort of character.

  

  Kim Young-ha
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Blue

• Growing up, I really looked up to the classic Hollywood actors like Spencer Tracy, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Falk. I love character actors - I've never wanted to be the leading guy.

  

  David Harewood
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Growing

• History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Moments
  • Environment
  • Novel

• Every speech, for Olivier, is like a mass of marble at which the sculptor chips away until its essential form and meaning are revealed. No matter how ignoble the character he plays, the result is always noble as a work of art.

  

  Kenneth Tynan
  • Work
  • Art
  • Character

• The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

  

  Alice Miller
  • Children
  • Why
  • Parents

• I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • People
  • Character

• When I play a game, I want to play, not necessarily laugh. If you try to make me laugh at the expense of interactivity, then you've just created another funny game that isn't very fun. The videogame medium itself is a terrible place for complicated humor, drama, and character development.

  

  Doug TenNapel
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Funny

• In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

  

  Adelbert von Chamisso
  • Character
  • Eyes
  • Blue

• I never gave a thought to any kind of danger, being all too engrossed in matters of an utterly different character.

  

  Alexandra Kollontai
  • Character
  • Danger
  • Matters

• I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Character
  • Play
  • Hollywood

• I received a phone call; my agent got a phone call from Ryan Murphy saying he wanted to talk to me... And he basically outlined 'American Horror Story' for me and said that there's a character named Larry the Burn Guy, and I'd like you to play it.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Character
  • American
  • Guy

• Sometimes when you do a part, the wall between you and the characters can be very porous. You can sort of move in and out of your character's persona and being. And that just couldn't happen on this one because of working with him.

  

  Kyra Sedgwick
  • Character
  • Wall

• The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it. As for myself, I'm not really sure who I am. I change every day.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Thing

• I would love to write a script where the main character is a woman. I know I can direct a film where the main character is a woman. I cannot write that film.

  

  Philippe Falardeau
  • Character

• I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.

  

  Bjorn Borg
  • Different
  • Character

• I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.

  

  Lesley Ann Warren
  • People
  • Work
  • Character

• Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work.

  

  William Petersen
  • People
  • Want
  • Likes

• I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate television with any gay character or lesbian character or transgender character, I think that's a really great thing. We're kind of getting past the fact that they're the punchline or that they're the novelty.

  

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson
  • Great
  • Past
  • Gay

• Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.

  

  Chris Tucker
  • Bad
  • Comedy
  • Hurt

• I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie. That's the first thing. You want to do it.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Movie
  • Yourself
  • Process

• I would love to play a fun character. Like, I would love to be in 'A Long Day's Journey Into Night.' I love that play. I'd play Edmond or Jamie. I don't care which.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Night

• At the beginning, my character Cameron is really family-oriented.

  

  Kian Lawley
  • Family
  • Character
  • Beginning

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