Character Quotes
-
War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.
Elie Ducommun
-
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart Mill
-
This is a tried and true genre directed by a guy who's famous for character work. This could take a genre picture and lift it and elevate it. That was my thinking.
Michael Chiklis
-
A part of being an actress that is sort of frustrating is that the writers get to tell you about your character.
Annabeth Gish
-
I don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a line funny just by, I don't know, some extra-sense perception. I only know character and emotion and real acting; that's all I know how to do.
John C. Reilly
-
The character of Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' has some real dark sides, and Matt wasn't afraid to explore those.
Jeffrey Klarik
-
I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important
Tony Goldwyn
-
Influence follows close upon the heels of character; and whatever we are, that we shall in the end be acknowledged to be.
Caroline Wells Healey Dall
-
Since I've had some success, story and character are always the two elements I think about first in material presented to me. Some of my choices have been more successful than others.
Powers Boothe
-
Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?
Madame de Stael
-
The type of acting that I'm interested in, that I aspire to, is where I try and drag a lot of myself into whatever character it is. They can be very different types of characters, but at the heart of it, I always wanted to be a very, very believable and rooted in reality. One of the ways of doing that is to root it as much as you can in your own experiences and then tint those with different hues, different colors to give the different characters their way.
Tobias Menzies
-
If you want to play a complex, turmoiled character, then give him a dose of Catholicism.
Charlie Cox
-
Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.
Friedrich Nietzsche
-
I remember going to the audition for 'Corrie.' I wasn't an actor - what they're often looking for in these rooms is a character, not what's on the page. They want to see what you are going to bring. So somehow, I got the job on 'Corrie.' For the first time in a while, someone really believed in me.
Joe Gilgun
-
If you like quick put-downs and aggressive interactions with the audience, you will probably not enjoy the rambles of an unusual character act making jokes about cats for an hour.
Amy Hoggart
-
Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.
Ana Gasteyer
-
To me the industry has always said that the lovers and haters and principal characters will always be white in Hollywood, and black people will always be appendages of those kinds of dramas, or they will be comedic outlets. It will never change.
Haile Gerima
-
I really relate to outsider characters. Especially the eccentric, lunatic weirdos like Alfred Hitchcock, Viktor Navorski in The Terminal, or the Anvil guys. Everything I've done is about these quite eccentric, exotic outsiders who you might see in a certain light at first, but once you scratch the surface a little, you realize that they're not that different from you. I think there's an element of that which unites.
Sacha Gervasi
