Character Quotes

• You must achieve the confidence of knowing that you possess absolute, unbending, unimpeachable integrity. Everyone must know that. Above all else, it is integrity that defines your character.

  

  Dave Calhoun
  • Believe
  • Integrity
  • Knowing

• 'Frasier' works because we stay focused on the idea that - how he continues to grow. It is not that you are really - the mission is not to try to keep him fresh; the idea is if you naturally put a character in a situation that demands growth of him, then he will remain fresh.

  

  Kelsey Grammer
  • Character
  • Growth

• If it's time for your character to go, it's time for your character to go - you know what I mean? That's it. It doesn't matter who you are.

  

  Steve Schirripa
  • Character
  • Mean
  • Matter

• Myself and Yorgos Lanthimos, we spoke a little bit and I was at a certain body weight that I was closer to making a statement or defining the character physically by losing weight. There was no justification for him to be emaciated, but I thought, say I was 165, I thought what if I went down to 155 and have him rail-thin? And Yorgos was like, "Well, if he's very thin I think maybe it will speak to some kind of psychological trouble that we want to stay away from," and I was like, "F - -, you're right."

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Trouble
  • Justification
  • Yorgos Lanthimos

• I refuse to work evenings or weekends. If a script sees my character meeting for dinner, I put a line through the words and make them meet for lunch.

  

  Armando Iannucci
  • Work
  • Character
  • Words

• When you cast someone like Natalie Portman, the character can't just be the love interest.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Character

• I love the character I played in 'Criminal Minds.'

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Character

• The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Care
  • Habit
  • Concern

• Kids search for what's relevant, what connects with their life... now. They know bad things happen like Hurricane Katrina. Through character driven stories, they explore what it's like to survive, thrive, and become more themselves.

  

  Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Bad

• There is always pressure playing a real living person and even pressure developing a character from scratch.

  

  Marisa Ramirez
  • Real
  • Character

• The roles I was lucky enough to get were real stretches for me: usually a character who was older, or a little weird, or whatever. And it was hard, not just for the lack of work but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I watched some of Lost series. And I realized that the character they wanted me to play didn't really come in for a long time. It would have just been the wrong thing for me to do.

  

  Scott Glenn
  • Long
  • Character

• I don't really try to judge any character that I play, afterwards I figure it out, but while I'm working on the character, I have to find something in them to relate to.

  

  John Hawkes
  • Character
  • Judge

• Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Country
  • May
  • Alone

• I'd like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

  

  John Boyega
  • Good
  • Character
  • Interesting

• Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Good
  • Character
  • Luck

• I say, without characters, fame lives long.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Long
  • Fame

• The character of a generation is moulded by personal character.

  

  Brooke Foss Westcott
  • Character
  • Generations

• 'Star Trek' scared me a lot more than 'White Jazz.' It terrified me, really. Because of the scale, the responsibility, the fact that it was this iconic character. It was the bigger challenge, so I had to take it.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Responsibility
  • Star
  • Challenge

• When I was cast in 'Batman v Superman,' I was sent a huge stack of comics. They provided a ton of information about Cyborg and how he has evolved as a character over the years.

  

  Ray Fisher
  • Information
  • Superman
  • Provided

• All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name in life! The show is such a phenomenon all over the world.

  

  Grace Dell Nichols
  • People
  • World
  • Phenomenon

• California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Life
  • Character
  • California

• Two things are always happening in acting. On the one hand, it's a team sport. We're all pulling together. But on the other, you have to look after your own character. Guard their interests.

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
  • Together
  • Team
  • Hand

• Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Character
  • Knowledge
  • Human Existence

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