Character Quotes

• It's all about creating a back story for the character and developing emotional responses that are true to life in relation to the character. It isn't necessary to live a tragic life to create from that place.

  

  Corin Nemec
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • God
  • Children
  • Attention

• As a writer, I find that a good way of evolving a character is through an examination of his or her defining relationships - and what's more defining than a relationship with someone you love?

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • Good
  • Character
  • Relationship

• The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can't describe how deeply I love them all.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Character
  • Things
  • Feels

• If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • Character

• In any character you do, especially something like 'Watchmen,' if you're gonna do this, you're gonna do this right. I'm fighting for the Comedian every step of the way; there's not even a question, Adrian is a scumbag.

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan
  • Character
  • Question
  • Fighting

• The opulence and grandeur of a lot of period drama really helps you get into character and appreciate the luxury of good quality. If you're fashion-minded in any way, you can't help but be incredibly inspired and apply elements to your own style.

  

  Annabelle Wallis
  • Good
  • Help
  • Fashion

• When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

  

  Lori Loughlin
  • Character

• For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.

  

  Billy Zane
  • Work
  • Trust
  • Training

• Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Help

• I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Knows
  • Should
  • Temperance

• I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Work
  • Fictional

• I enjoy catching our show whenever I can. It does get very weird to watch myself, it's always been that way, but at the same time, it's part of my job to see what kind of job I'm doing and to get a perspective on where I'm taking the character.

  

  James Lafferty
  • Time
  • Job
  • Weird

• I'm a huge Emile Zola fan, and when Bill Gallagher said he was writing a new character for 'The Paradise' and had me in mind for the role, I knew I wanted to play Tom Weston before I'd even read a word of the script.

  

  Ben Daniels
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Paradise

• When you're playing the same character for a decade it's natural that there are moments when you want to try something new.

  

  David Schwimmer
  • Character
  • Moments

• We have had more brilliant Presidents than Cleveland, and one or two who were considerably more profound, but we have never had one, at least since Washington, whose fundamental character was solider and more admirable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Character
  • Profound

• True Detective is an intense show, even in terms of the dialogue - there's a little rhythm to it, in particular in his monologues. I think on those days, he Woody Harrelson really had to stay in the zone. Because there's a certain cadence in which that character speaks and talks about life, you know? But then there are other days that he was able to be a little more loose.

  

  Michelle Monaghan
  • Thinking
  • Speak
  • Term

• Im doing pretty good as far as geniuses go ... Im like a machine. Im a robot. You cannot offend a robot ... Im going down as a legend, whether or not you like me or not. I am the new Jim Morrison. I am the new Kurt Cobain ... The Bible had 20, 30, 40, 50 characters in it. You dont think that I would be one of the characters of todays modern Bible?

  

  Kanye West
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Pretty

• It's more acceptable for guys to get old and craggy and become wonderful character actors as they get older, but women aren't allowed to get old and craggy in the same way.

  

  Marion Bailey
  • Women
  • Character

• Education, family, character, intelligence, humility, okay? These are the things that make a culture live.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Live
  • Family
  • Culture

• I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.

  

  Jane Gardam
  • Writing
  • Hope
  • Interesting

• I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk.

  

  David Small
  • World
  • Believe
  • Kids

• Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • Life
  • Sun
  • Author

• Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Great
  • Humans
  • Individual

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